 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...the nature of light, and the cause of gravity. "He was induced," he says, "to do this, because he had observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, and he therefore gave one which he was inclined to consider as the most probable, if he were obliged... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...that hypothesis, could not in any degree add to or take away -from their certainty;* "but," says he, " because I have observed the heads of some great virtuosos...the most probable, if I were obliged to adopt one." He then admits, nearly as Descartes had previously done, the existence of a fluid imperceptible to... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...hypothesis, could not in any degree add to or take away -from their certainty ;* " but," says he, " because I have observed the heads of some great virtuosos...the most probable, if I were obliged to adopt one." He then admits, nearly as Descartes had previously done, the existence of a fluid imperceptible to... | |
 | 1845 - 334 pages
...the nature of light, and the cause of gravity. "He was induced," he says, "to do this, because he had observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, and he therefore gave one which he was inclined to consider as the most probable, if he were obliged... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 pages
...nature of light and the cause of gravity. — cc He was induced to do this," he says, " because he had observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, and he therefere gave one which he was obliged to consider as the most probable, if he were inclined... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 pages
...nature of light and the cause of gravity. — " He was induced to do this," he says, " because he had observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, and he therefere gave one which he was obliged to consider as the most probable, if he were inclined... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 pages
...nature of light and the cause of gravity. — " He was induced to do this," he says, " because he had observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, and he therefore gave one which he was obliged to consider as the most probable, if he were inclined... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...comprehensive of other hypotheses as to leave little room for new ones to be invented ; and therefore because I have observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, as if my discourses wanted an hypothesis to explain them by, and found that some, when I could not... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...comprehensive of other hypotheses so as to leave little room for new ones to be invented ; and, therefore, because I have observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, as if my discourse wanted an hypothesis to explain them by, and found that some, when I could not make... | |
 | 1846 - 604 pages
...comprehensive of other hypotheses as to leave liille room for new ones to be invented ; nnd therefore because I have observed the heads of some great virtuosos to run much upon hypotheses, as if my discourses wanted an hypothesis to explain them by, and found that some, when I could not... | |
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I spake of the nature of light and colours abstractedly, have readily apprehended it when I illustrated my discourse by an hypothesis ; for this reason I have here thought... 
