 Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets,...  A History of Science - Page 249by Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - 1729 - 546 pages
...a caufe that penetrates to the very centers of the Sun and Planets, •without fuffei ing the leaft diminution of its force; that operates, not according to the quantity of the furfaces of the particles upon which it afls, (as mechanical caufes ufe to do,) but according to the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...prodigious mechanism, and with so much beautiful order and regularity, the great author proceeds; " Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the =un and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that it operates,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 pages
..." et impetus corporum et LEGES motuum et gravi" tatis INNOTUERUNT." " Hitherto we have ex" plained the phenomena of the heavens and of our " sea by the...but HAVE NOT YET " ASSIGNED THE CAUSE of this power. — In this phi" losophy particular propositions are inferred from " the phenomena, and afterwards... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 pages
...inductionem. Sic impmetrabilitas, mobilitas, et impetus corporum et LEGES motuum et gravitatis INNOTUERUNT." " Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...and of our sea by the power of gravity, but HAVE NOT VET ASSIGNED THE CAUSE of this power. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from... | |
 | James Davis (C.E.) - 1866 - 270 pages
...supported in his observations, Book III., page 392, vol. ii., of his Principia, as follows : — " Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our seas by the power of gravity, but yet have not assigned the cause of that power. This is certain, that... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1874 - 456 pages
...of the general scholium he says : " Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of 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 properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame... | |
 | John Martin (of Melbourne.) - 1875 - 104 pages
...his work, he, in his "General Scholium," or retrospective comment, uses the words following : — " Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...proceed from a ca,use that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...Principia, and is here transcribed from Cotcs's translation: — ' Hitherto we have explain'd the phaenomena of the heavens and of our sea, by the power of Gravity, but have not yet assign'd the cause of this power. This is certain that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1879 - 312 pages
...can present the concise expressions of the original Latin : " Hitherto we have explained," he says, " the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the...assigned the cause of this power. This is certain " (we must hearken attentively here, for when a man like Newton speaks of aught as certain, we have... | |
 | 1883 - 710 pages
...those who imagined he had explained the whole mystery of celestial movements. "Hitherto." he says, "we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, hut have not assigned the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that... | |
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