 | 1877 - 804 pages
...them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself? And though every true step in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the first cause, yet it brings ns nearer to it, and on that account it is to be highly valued." FRENCH AWD GERMAN.1 Critics often... | |
 | George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - 334 pages
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 300 pages
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 294 pages
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...more than to find it useful for that purpose."10 In his Opticks, likewise, he said, about Science, "Though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued."11 All these statements find their parallel in Alexander Pope's... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...Kepler, to the space-based concept of Newton. The pendulum will swing again. For all his pre-eminence, us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. As we shall see in Vol. 2, Newton's concept of absolute space... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...into our little Sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. (Opticks) In a letter to a friend, Richard Bentley, in 1692,... | |
 | Charles Taliaferro - 2005 - 482 pages
...little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And tho' every step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately...the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.'4 "Our little sensoriums" are the effective epicenters of our... | |
 | Nicholas Churchich - 2005 - 540 pages
...to Himself.97 Although, he adds in the Opticks, every true step made in this philosophy of science brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it. Newton's physical theory is a combination of analytic and synthetic reasonings. In the Principia the... | |
 | Joe Milutis - 234 pages
...into our little Sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections,... | |
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And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. 
