And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear frOm phenomena, that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were, in his sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly... Natural Philosophy: With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and an Index - Page 641832Full view - About this book
| Morris Kline - 1982 - 380 pages
...in animals? . . . And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself? In the third edition of his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Newton answers his own questions:... | |
| Alfred Rupert Hall - 2002 - 358 pages
...first, to which Leibniz particularly referred, Newton had asked: does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself: . . .... | |
| Edward Grant - 1981 - 484 pages
...perception by images to the direct manner in which God knows things, Newton, in query 2o,370 assumed that "there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself."371 Not only does God perceive phenomena directly and immediately, whereas only images of... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...page, and pasted in a new one which asserted, not that infinite space is the sensorium of God, but that "there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, [tanquam Sensorio suo] sees the things themselves intimately . . ,"59 Alas, he failed to alter every... | |
| Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pages
...instinct in animals?... And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself? In his second edition of his Principles, Newton answers his own questions: "This most beautiful system... | |
| David Park - 1990 - 488 pages
...establish the relation of absolute space to God. 1 or example, does it not appear from Phacnomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly hy their immediate presence to himself? (Opticks, Query 18) Galileo has already mentioned the sensorium.... | |
| Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
...analogy of body-mind interaction in the sensorium of the brain. "Does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves ultimately . . . and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself?" But neither God... | |
| Donald A. Crosby - 1988 - 474 pages
...themselves." As a "being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent," and existing in "infinite space," he "sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly...them wholly by their immediate presence to himself." Human beings, by contrast, are imprisoned in their senses and can know the world only in a mediated... | |
| W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...Whittaker, 370 (Bk. 3, Pt. 1, Qu. 28). The "first Cause" Newton had described in the preceding sentence as "a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent,...Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. ..."... | |
| Gary Carl Hatfield - 1990 - 394 pages
...the homuncular position. Newton, in Query 28 of the Optics, wrote that the images of external things, "carried through the Organs of Sense into our little...seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks."74 But other writers were more careful, explicitly warning against the dangers of homuncularism.... | |
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