 | Michael H.G. Hoffmann - 2005 - 408 pages
...scientific method can be found in the second English edition of Opticks of 1717: 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,... | |
 | Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine - 2006 - 502 pages
...condensed matter physics, Query 31 concludes with a statement of methodological faith: As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult...Analysis ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. ... By this way ... we may proceed from Compounds to Ingredients, and from Motions to the Forces producing... | |
 | Jaakko Hintikka, U. Remes - 1974 - 178 pages
...method. On the contrary, Newton acknowledges in so many words, as we have seen, that "in Mathematicks ... the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method...Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition ...". Newton also practiced what he preached. His Universal Arithmetick was subtitled 'A Treatise of... | |
 | B. A. Lustig, B.A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny - 2008 - 338 pages
...mathematics..." (Newton, Preface to Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, in Newton, 1953. "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,... | |
 | 174 pages
...Iferschel, p. 273. Near the end of his book of Optics, he writes in the same philosophic spirit — " 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,... | |
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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... 
