 | Morris Dickstein - Law - 1998 - 468 pages
...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. . . . [H]itherto I have not been able to discover the cause...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses [hypotheses nonfingo]; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis;... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...statement of this position is found in Newton's 'General Scholium' to the second edition of the Principia: But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses;124 for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis;... | |
 | Merold Westphal - History - 1998 - 262 pages
...gravity with which bodies tend to the sun and the several planets. Ib) But hitherto I have been unable to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. 2a) By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients and from motions to the forces... | |
 | D. H. Mellor - Philosophy - 1998 - 164 pages
...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, [we] have not yet assigned the cause of this power. ... Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity ... and I frame no hypotheses. But nothing in Newton's theory niles out hypotheses, eg that gravity... | |
 | Alan Musgrave - Philosophy - 1999 - 388 pages
...anything actual pulling the planets out of their 'natural' rectilinear paths. 1n Newton's own words he had 'not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity ... it is enough that gravity does really exist and act according to the laws which we have explained'.... | |
 | Justus Buchler - Philosophy - 2000 - 300 pages
...jamais sur leurs modes de production " — ibid., p. 312.) 1 The entire relevant passage is : "... Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses ; for whatever isvnot deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...distances as far as the orbit of Saturn, as is evident from the aphelions of the planets being at rest, and even to the remotest aphelions of the comets, if those aphelions are also at rest. But up to now I have not been able to deduce the reason for these properties of gravity from... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - Philosophy - 2000 - 132 pages
...distances as far as the orbit of Saturn, as is evident from the aphelions of the planets being at rest, and even to the remotest aphelions of the comets, if those aphelions are also at rest. But up to now I have not been able to deduce the reason for these properties of gravity from... | |
 | Jean Borella - Religion - 2001 - 248 pages
...for this difference is that Galileo and the denial of the theophanic world falls between them. 21. "I have not been able to discover the cause of those...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, General Scholium). Koyre (Du monde clos a I'univers... | |
 | Jean-Claude Pecker - Nature - 2001 - 616 pages
...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but we have not yet assigned a cause of its power" ... "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity for phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" ... "and hypotheses, whether... | |
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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,... 
