 | James Davis (C.E.) - Bible and science - 1866 - 270 pages
...receding from the sun, decreases accurately in the duplicate proportion of the distances as far as the orb of Saturn as evidently appears from the quiescence of the aphelions of the planets ; nay, even to the remotest aphelions of the comets, if these aphelions are also quiescent. But hitherto I... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 512 pages
...heavens and the sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. ... I have not been able to discover the cause of those...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. ... To us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which \ve have... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 456 pages
...the heavens and the sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power I have not been able to discover the cause of those...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses To us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained,... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - Mind and body - 1875 - 580 pages
...the gravitations towards the several particles of which the bodyf of the Sun is compos'd, <fcc. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phaenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. . . . And to us it is enough, that gravity does -really exist,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 534 pages
...consideration of my readers."t At the conclusion of the third book of his Principia, Newton remarks : " Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomona is to be called an hypothesis. . . . To... | |
 | University of Missouri - Lectures and lecturing - 1879 - 522 pages
...understand the ultimate nature of gravitation, but he deemed its reality and value beyond question. He says: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis. * * * And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...the ultimate nature of gravitation, but he deemed its reality and value beyond question. He says : "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis. * * * And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws... | |
 | Samuel Spahr Laws - First philosophy - 1879 - 108 pages
...understand the ultimate nature of gravitation, but he deemed its reality and value beyond question. He says: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis. * * * And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws... | |
 | Chemistry - 1883 - 710 pages
...applied in our own time even to the whole space over which the range of the telescope has been extended]. But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" (hypotheses nonßnqo). He explains what he 7ueans by hypotheses, in words showing that he used the... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 536 pages
...in our own time, even to the whole space over -which the range of the telescope has been extended). But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses " (hypotheses non fingo). He explains what he means by hypotheses, in words tihowing that he used the... | |
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But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical,... 
