 | Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802 - 590 pàgines
...eminent philosopher made the most happy, and we may now say, without fear of contradiction, the greatest improvement that was ever made in philosophy, when he discovered that he could connect together the motions of the planets by so familiar a principle as that of the gravitation of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pàgines
...but we have occasion to observe it. The superior genius and sagacity of Sir Isaac Newton, therefore, made the most happy, and, we may now say, the greatest...Planets by so familiar a principle of connection, which completely removed all the difficulties the imagination had hitherto felt in attending to them.... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 pàgines
...emphasized an aesthetic dimension, namely the familiarity of the principle involved: "The superior genius and sagacity of Sir Isaac Newton . . . made...ever made in philosophy, when he discovered, that he couldjoin together the movements of the Planets by so familiar a principle of connection, which completely... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 pàgines
...all this recent enlightenment by Newton, who, with his discoveries and scientific method, produced "the most happy, and, we may now say, the greatest...and most admirable improvement that was ever made in philosophy."51 Reason, said Dunbar, "stands in need of culture, and arrives gradually at different... | |
 | Abdol S. Soofi, Liangyue Cao - 2002 - 528 pàgines
...Newton's discovery of gravity. He pointed out that "The superior genius and sagacity of Sir , therefore, made the most happy, and, we may now say, the greatest...Planets by so familiar a principle of connection,..." (Smith, A. "The History of Astronomy", 1967, p.100). In fact, Newton, decades before Smith's writings,... | |
 | Renato * Espoz Le-Fort - 2003 - 440 pàgines
...traducción de los textos que siguen. The superior genius and sagacity of Sir Isaac Newton, Therefore, made the most happy. and, we may now say, the greatest...together the movements of the Planets by so familiar a principie of connection, which completely removed all the difficulties the imagination had hitherto... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 pàgines
...but we have occasion to observe it. The superior genius and sagacity of Sir Isaac Newton, therefore, made the most happy, and, we may now say, the greatest...Planets by so familiar a principle of connection, which completely removed all the difficulties the imagination had hitherto felt in attending to them.... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 pàgines
...(IV.67). In consequence, Smith declares, here echoing the standard Enlightenment judgment, that it was "the greatest and most admirable improvement that was ever made in philosophy" (ibid) and Newton's principles "have a degree of firmness and solidity that we should in vain look... | |
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The superior genius and sagacity of Sir Isaac Newton, therefore, made the most happy, and, we may now say, the greatest and most admirable improvement that was ever made in philosophy, when he discovered, that he could join together the movements of the... 