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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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Correspondence

Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 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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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A ..., Volume 3

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2000 - 368 pages
...quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : But to dcri<ve Moo or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and at lions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, -would be a -very great step...
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Raum, Materie, Zeit: Schöpfungstheologie im Dialog mit ...

Dirk Evers - 2000 - 464 pages
...seines Vorhabens in der Optik: „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 from those manifest principles" (DERS., Optics: or, a Treatise of The Reflections, Refractions, Inflections...
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Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis

Lawrence M. Zbikowski - 2002 - 376 pages
...However, Newton believed this exception to his overall methodology was justified by the potential results: To derive two or three general Principles of Motion...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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The Cambridge Companion to Newton

I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - 2002 - 518 pages
...Species of Things is cndow'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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Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time

Julian Seymour Schwinger - 2002 - 274 pages
...speculative inquiry about causes. ... 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 from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the Causes of those Principles...
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Chomsky on Democracy and Education

Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 pages
...nevertheless had substantive content. "To derive two or three general Principles of motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and Actions of all corporal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy," Newton...
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On Nature and Language

Noam Chomsky - 2002 - 220 pages
...nevertheless had substantive content. "To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and Actions of all corporal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy," Newton...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2003 - 370 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...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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British Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 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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