 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 678 pages
...pp. 263, 264), there is a longer and fuller passage, much to the same effect : 'As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis st, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 pages
...pp. 263, 264), there is a longer and fuller passage, much to the same effect : ' As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis °4, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other SIR W. HAMILTON. f mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she...enjoyments; and, as she robs the senses of every SIR I. NKWTON. The word Analysis signifies the general and particular heads of a discourse, wilh their... | |
 | E. Janes - 1884 - 316 pages
...Logic, 9.) Sir Isaac Newton correctly stated the nature of induction in the following passage: "As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation...making experiments and observations and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction. And although the arguing from experiments and observations... | |
 | E. Janes - 1884 - 224 pages
...Logic, 9.) Sir Isaac Newton correctly stated the nature of induction in the following passage: "As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation...making experiments and observations and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction. And although the arguing from experiments and observations... | |
 | John Venn - 1889 - 628 pages
...his Optics, which have been quoted by D. Stewart and made the text of an interesting discussion. "As in Mathematics so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation...and in drawing conclusions from them by Induction, By this way of Analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces... | |
 | James Welton - 1896 - 374 pages
...(qu. 31) ; " As ^nF°f^. " in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the investiga- (::) Synthe" tion of difficult things by the method of analysis ought...making experiments and observations, and in " drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and " admitting of no objections against the conclusions,... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 pages
...Nature, Vol. XXXVII., p. 618. So far we have followed Newton's directions. He says emphatically, " as in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation...ought ever to precede the method of composition." — " Opticks," 3rd edition, p. 380. We have, so to speak, pulled down the universe, and taken it to... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - 448 pages
...urges, have any weight. These two rules should be compared with the following passage from the Optics. " In Natural Philosophy the ' investigation of difficult things by the method of Ana' lysis, ought ever to precede the method of Composition.1 ' This Analysis consists in making Experiments... | |
 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - 1910 - 168 pages
...principle of the greater part of modern inorganic chemical research. CHAPTER III THE PERIODIC LAW "As in Mathematics so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation...ought ever to precede the method of composition." NEWTON, Ofticks. HAVING traced the gradual course of development of the idea which is embodied in Mendeleeff... | |
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As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions... 
