| Edward Grant - 2007
...Years have been rejected. To tell us that every Species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing.51 I have thus far indicated numerous departures of early modern natural philosophy and science... | |
| Béatrice Longuenesse - 2007 - 269 стор.
...his Optics, "that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specific quality [like gravity] by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing."7 If Hegel's statements about astronomy are not always felicitous, in the present case at... | |
| 1869 - 668 стор.
...Phil. nat. p. 676." — „To teil us, that every species of things is endowed with an occult speciiick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects,...derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow... | |
| Charles Sherrington - 1974 - 256 стор.
...of the same category as the body itself. For 1 'To tell us that every species of things is endow' d with an occult specific Quality, by which it acts...produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing' (Isaac Newton). 2 Alphonse Lemerre's Rabelais, I, p. 19, Paris, 1879. 3 Moyen de Parvenir, de Verville.... | |
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