...research, very important, and not, I think, clearly pointed out by his predecessors. Thus he says,4 "As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation...making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions,...

...not published till it occurred as Query 3 1 in the second edition of the Opticks (1717). He says: As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation...Method of Analysis ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.4 1. Isaac Newton, Opticks, New York: Dover, 1952, p. 405. 2. Kant, Selected Precritical...

...Thayer, ed., Newton's Philosophy of Nature (New York, 1953), p. 6. 4. Ibid., p. 7. As in Mathematicks so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions,...

...er in „Query" 23/21 der 2. englischen Auflage seiner „Opticks" schreibt: „As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition ... By this way of Analysis, we may proceed from Compounds to Ingredients, and from Motion to Forces...

...seventeenth century Newton gave this distinction what would appear to be a broader interpretation: As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation...making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions...

...Newton offers a concise account of what he considers proper scientific method: As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions,...

...procedure is in the famous Query 31 of the second English edition of the Opticks: As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions;...

...of the work, he described the method all scientific investigations would henceforth have to employ: In Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no objections against the Conclusion but...

...to the Greek geometers (cf. above, p. 29). In query 31 of the Opticks he wrote : As in Mathematicks. so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions,...

...scientific method: "As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Thmgs by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the...making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions,...