 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...writing the Principia: When I wrote my treatise [Principia] about our [solar] system, I had an eye on such principles as might work with considering men...Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. (Newton's Philosophy of Nature, edited by HS Thayer) Consider another persistent... | |
 | H.A. David, A.W.F. Edwards - 2001 - 280 pages
...reply, dated December 10, 1692, opens "Sir, When I wrote my treatise about our system [Principia, 1687], I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity. . . ." Later in the letter Newton writes: To your second query, I answer, that the motions which the... | |
 | R. Crocker - 2001 - 264 pages
...busy preparing the first set of Boyle lectures in 1692, "When I wrote my treatise about our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."41 Like... | |
 | Alan Houston, Steve Pincus - 2001 - 366 pages
...their laudable attempts to discover the true nature of the works of God';44 or of Isaac Newton, who 'had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief in the deity'.45 The telescope and microscope enhanced people's wonder at the beauty and design of... | |
 | Michael Denton - 2002 - 482 pages
...instruments running mindlessly down with no report. — Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey, 1957 When I first wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon...deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. — Isaac Newton, Principia, 1687 The defenders of the anthropocentric... | |
 | Tapio Luoma - 2002 - 246 pages
...book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, 1 had an eye upon such principles as might work with...Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose." Newton, "God and Gravity," 46. See Scheurer and Debrock, Newton's Scientific... | |
 | James E. Force - 1985 - 236 pages
...Bendey 's Boyle Lectures (the first ever delivered) that "when I wrote my treatise about our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose."5 Bendey's... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 pages
...his "system of the world" the workings of the Almighty: "When I wrote my treatise upon our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."17 Newton... | |
 | Fabio Farina - 2003 - 112 pages
...wisdom and providence of God. In a letter to colleague Richard Bentley, we see Newton's enthusiasm: "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had...Deity and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose." There is no doubting Newton's obvious religious concern in his Principia.... | |
 | J. Thomas Howe - 2003 - 208 pages
...1991), 52-81. 5. Whitehead cites the following sentence in a letter from Newton to Richard Bentley: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...work with considering men for the belief of a Deity" (PR, 93). 6. See David Ray Griffin, God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern... | |
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WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
