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" I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;... "
The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the ... - Page 561
by Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819
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The Principles of Mechanics ...: To which is Now Added, an Appendix ...

William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1825 - 506 pages
...all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all whiqh is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and...
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Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art ..., Issue 2

Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...he has followed the synthetic method of the ancients, and demonstrated the theorems geometrically. The leading design of the Principia is, from certain...other phenomena are produced. The former is the end toward which the general propositions in the first and second books are directed ; the third book affords...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 22

Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...philosophy seems to consist in 1837.] Elements of Logic. 303 this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed....
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 12

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this: from the phenomena of motions, to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed....
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On Classical Literature: Being the First of the Series of Inaugural Lectures ...

Francis William Newman - 1841 - 268 pages
...Nature. "For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this, from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That...
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A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy

Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1844 - 214 pages
...Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this: from the phenomena of motions, to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed....
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The Logic of the Christian Faith: Being a Dissertation on Scepticism ...

Patrick Edward Dove - Apologetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...all the difficulty of philosophy * consists in this : from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature ; and then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; — all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances...
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The Fractional Family, Being the First Part of Spirit--mathematics--matter

Arthur Young - Philosophy - 1864 - 198 pages
...thus . " All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist in this : — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." " I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of...
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The elements: the ocean and atmosphere, Volume 2; Volume 31

William Leighton Jordan - 1867 - 12 pages
...that — ' all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' And then, after stating that on this principle he had, in the work above mentioned,...
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The bards and authors of Cleveland and south Durham, and the vicinage

George Markham Tweddell - Authors, English - 1872 - 438 pages
...all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and...
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