 | John Aikin - 1808 - Страниц: 730
...theorems geometrically. The leading design of the " Principia" is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - Страниц: 618
...the theorems geometrically v The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other -phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | William Emerson - 1825 - Страниц: 506
...world. For all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all whiqh is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions of the... | |
 | Library - 1827 - Страниц: 712
...the theorems geometrically. The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end toward which the general propositions... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - Страниц: 504
...Principia, says, " All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in 1837.] Elements of Logic. 303 this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - Страниц: 644
...ever to have explained these phenomena by analysis-. In the preface to his Principle, Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third book,... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - Страниц: 214
...impossible ever to have explained these phenomena by analysis. In the preface to his Principia, Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third book,... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1856 - Страниц: 450
...EMERSON. — " For all the difficulty of philosophy * consists in this : from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; — all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1864 - Страниц: 198
...ignorance of these forces, the fruitlessness of the endeavors after truth. The passages run thus . " All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." " I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - 1867 - Страниц: 12
...SON, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. SIR ISAAC NEWTON, in the preface to his ' Principia,' remarks that — ' all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' And then, after stating that on this principle he had, in the work above mentioned, demonstrated the... | |
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I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;... 
