 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 884 pages
...whoever thought any quality to be a heterogeneous aggregate, such as light is discovered to be. 404 405 But, to determine more absolutely what light is, after...And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. "Reviewing what I have written, I see the discourse itself will lead to divers experiments sufficient... | |
 | 1862 - 540 pages
...up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell, or musical string, or other souncjing body, is nothing but a trembling motion, and in the...appear to me to establish a theory the very opposite of Newton's. They prove that the sun's light consists of but one sort of rays, and that there are no such... | |
 | Ferdinand Rosenberger - 1895 - 554 pages
...absolutely what Light is, after what Manner refracted, and by what Modes or Actions it produceth in onr Minds the Phantasms of Colours, is not so easy: And I shall not mingle Conjectures with Certainties. • HOESLEY, Newtoni Opera, vol. IV, p. 307. den Werdeprocess seiner Entdeckungen gegeben. Durch nörgelnden... | |
 | Ferdinand Rosenberger - 1895 - 558 pages
...more absolutely what Light is, after what Manner refracted, and by what Modes or Actions it produceth in our Minds the Phantasms of Colours, is not so easy: And I shall not mingle Conjeetures with Certainties. 1 HORSLEV, Newtoni Opera, vol. IV, p. 307. den Werdeprocess seiner Entdeckungen... | |
 | 1902 - 612 pages
...to something else, we have as good reason to believe that to be a substance also. Besides, whoever thought any quality to be a heterogeneous aggregate,...And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. Reviewing what I have written, I see the discourse itself will load to diverse experiments sufficient... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...reason to believe that to be substance also. Besides, whoever thought any quality to be a heterogenous aggregate, such as light is discovered to be. But...And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. Reviewing what I have written, I see the discourse itself will lead to divers experiments sufficient... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...more absolutely what light is, after what manner refracted, and by what modes or actions it produceth in our minds the phantasms of colours, is not so easy, and I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties."46 Apparently Newton's first alternative " Opticks, p. 32s. Cf. p. 319, S. u Opera, IV,... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pages
...what manner refracted, and by what modes or actions it produces in our minds the phantasms of colors, is not so easy. And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties' (Newton 1779-85, vol. 4, p. 305). The mechanist Huygens insists that Newton's account of colours is... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 2000 - 110 pages
...= brain state, b. Newton himself wrote: 'To determine ... by what modes or actions light produceth in our minds the phantasms of colours is not so easy....And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties' (Newton, 1671, p. 3085). Three and a half centuries later, let us see if we can at least mix some certainties... | |
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But, to determine more absolutely what light is, after what manner refracted, and by what modes or actions it produces in our minds the phantasms of colours, is not so easy. And I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. 
