 And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea.  The North American Review - Seite 73herausgegeben von - 1871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 Seiten
...In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. 2 Again in a... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 Seiten
...to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses . . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...according to the laws which we have explained, and abundandy serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea." Composed... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - 1994 - 318 Seiten
...In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability,...impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer - 1996 - 396 Seiten
...Newton's Principia: "I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity ... it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws we have explained." 34. To argue that species survived because they were fit (making fitness some sort... | |
 | John Earman, John D. Norton - 1998 - 604 Seiten
...which appear later in Book 3, but is not quite so explicitly based on hypothetico-deductive success. And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies, and of our sea. (Cajori, 547) A passage Stein quotes from Newton's discussion of... | |
 | Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 Seiten
...constant G. the causes of those properties . . . and I frame no hypothesis [nonfingo hypothesis]. . . . [I]t is enough that gravity does really exist, and...act according to the laws which we have explained." Don't judge Newton too quickly on this last issue. Science is very good at using shadowy concepts to... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 Seiten
...In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability,...impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered.'1 Of course, if we understand the word 'hypothesis' in the sense in... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 Seiten
...philosophy. In this philosophy propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability,...impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, became known. And it is enough that gravity really exists, and acts according to the... | |
 | Gregor Vogt-Spira, Bettina Rommel, Immanuel Musäus - 1999 - 440 Seiten
...„In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability,...impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered." Zur Induktion bei Bacon vgl. Jürgen Klein, Radikales Denken in England:... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 Seiten
...particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Tbus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and...impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according... | |
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