 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...gravity and that which causes fermentation and the cohesion of bodies. These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific...themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1918 - 938 pages
...and motions of these permanent particles. . . . Those principles I consider not as occult qualities, but as general laws of nature by which the things...themselves are formed ; their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. — ISAAC NEWTON. , The four laws of chemical... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1923 - 484 pages
...which causeth fermentation, and the "cohesion of bodies. These principles are to be consid"ered not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the "specific...themselves are formed; their truth "appearing to us by phenomena though their causes are "not yet discovered. But Sir Isaac does not speak here as a Philosopher,... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1923 - 476 pages
...which causeth fermentation, and the "cohesion of bodies. These principles are to be consid"ered not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the "specific...themselves are formed ; their truth "appearing to us by phenomena though their causes are "not yet discovered. But Sir Isaac does not speak here as a Philosopher,... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - 1923 - 472 pages
...which causeth fermentation, and the "cohesion of bodies. These principles are to be consid"ered not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the "specific...themselves are formed ; their truth "appearing to us by phenomena though their causes are "not yet discovered. But Sir Isaac does not speak here as a Philosopher,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1908 - 384 pages
...Bodies. These Principles I consider not as occult Qualities, supposed to result from the specifick Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd ; their Truth appearing to us by Phenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd. For these... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1977 - 192 pages
...qualities. "These Principles I consider, not as occult Qualities, supposed to result from the specifick Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by...themselves are formed; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest Qualities, and their... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 422 pages
...had been on the defensive over gravity, so now he took care to present the inter-atomic forces not as occult Qualities, supposed to result from the specific...Laws of Nature by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena though their Causes be not yet discover'd. Seven... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...disclaimer. These Principles I consider, not as occult Qualities, supposed to result from the specifick Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd. For these... | |
 | Robert Nadeau - 1984 - 132 pages
..."occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific form of things." They should be viewed rather as "general laws of nature, by which the things themselves are formed." 7 The obligation of the scientific investigator is to uncover general laws that govern behavior of... | |
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These principles I consider not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature by which the things themselves are formed : their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet... 
