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" ... to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes... "
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science - Page 86
1869
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Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...Species of Things is endow'd with an occult fpecifick Quality by which it a&s and produces manifeft Effects, is to tell us nothing: But to derive two...Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from thofe manifeft Principles^ would be a very great ftep in Philofophy, though the Caufes of thofe Principles...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pages
...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how th« properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered. Newton....
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Historical Essay on the First Publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia

Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - 208 pages
...at the end of the Optics. " To derive two or three general principles of motion " from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the " properties and...follow " from those manifest principles, would be a very " great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those " principles were not yet discovered."...
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Volume 2

William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...put a stop to the improvement of Natural Philosophy, and therefore of late years have beeii rejected. To tell us that every species of things 'is endowed...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 1

1841 - 496 pages
...qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature .... To tell us that every species of things is endowed...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles...
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Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung, Volume 3

Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 654 pages
...effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two 'or three, general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions...follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles were not yet discovered : and...
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Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung, Volume 3

Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 676 pages
...nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal...follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihosc principles were not yet discovered : and...
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Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung, Volume 3

Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 656 pages
...nothing: but to derive two or ihree general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from Ihose manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles...
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Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 3, Part 1

Alexander von Humboldt - 1851 - 306 pages
...effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derire two or three general principles of motion from phsenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions...follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered, and therefore...
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On the Philosophy of Discovery: Chapters Historical and Critical

William Whewell - 1860 - 604 pages
...put a stop to the improvement of Natural Philosophy, and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed...properties and actions o'f all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles...
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