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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... "
Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ... - Page 367
by Isaac Newton - 1730 - 382 pages
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Henry More: And the Scientific Revolution

A. Rupert Hall - 2002 - 324 pages
...Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest 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 of all corporeal Things follow...
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A History of Classical Physics: From Antiquity to the Quantum

John Desmond Bernal - 1997 - 326 pages
...Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest 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 of all corporeal Things follow...
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History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology, Third Edition

Merold Westphal - 1998 - 262 pages
...species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects is to tell us nothing. But to derive two or...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles...
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The Philosophy of Physics

Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 pages
...Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing: But to derive two...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...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...occult quality in virtue of which it acts and produces its observable effects is to say nothing at all. 'But to derive two or three general principles of...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...
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Instantaneous Action at a Distance in Modern Physics: "pro" and "contra"

Andrew E. Chubykalo, Pope, Viv, Roman Smirnov-Rueda - 1999 - 476 pages
...principles of natural philosophy. The true heir to this way of thinking was Isaac Newton, who believed that 'to derive two or three general Principles of Motion...Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from these manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the Causes of those Principles...
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Philosophy of Science: The Historical Background

Joseph J. Kockelmans - 516 pages
...species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects is to tell us nothing. But to derive two or...three general principles of motion from phenomena and afterward to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest...
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Essays on Realism and Rationalism

Alan Musgrave - 1999 - 388 pages
...Species of Things is endowed with an occult specific Quality by which it acts and produces manifest 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 of all corporeal Things follow...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition

David Hume - 2000 - 460 pages
...Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing: But to derive two...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...
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Readings in Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and ...

Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pages
...species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects is to tell us nothing, but to derive two or...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...
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