 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...[science]; for all the difficulty in 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 book are directed.... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...philosophy. 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." Next Newton defined his terms. They are the basic quantities of classical physics,... | |
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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;... 
