 As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 205by Dugald Stewart - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Augustus Tilden - Atomic weights - 1910 - 168 pages
...research. CHAPTER III THE PERIODIC LAW "As in Mathematics so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition." NEWTON, Ofticks. HAVING traced the gradual course of development of the idea which is embodied in Mendeleeff... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1921 - 660 pages
...contains. " It is evi' dent, that as in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the inves' tigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever...princi• pies which really obtain in nature ; and that our-system, after we ' bare composed it with great labour, is not mere dream or illu* See the concluding... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...Opticks, he is somewhat more explicit : As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusion* from... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 428 pages
...composition, and the method of induction: As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from... | |
 | Imre Lakatos - Mathematics - 1980 - 302 pages
...for instance of this statement: 'As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition'.3 Again it is the correct interpretation of the Fifth Rule in Descartes's Regulae: he... | |
 | Z. Bechler - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 264 pages
...huge analysis— synthesis argument: As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of synthesis. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations. Thence we may reason from... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...in this form: It is evident that, as in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought...other way, we can never be sure that we assume the principles that really obtain in nature; and that our system, after we have composed it with great... | |
 | David Faust - Science - 1984 - 234 pages
...require consideration, thereby simplifying the scientist's task. Newton said that "the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, Ought ever to precede the Method of Composition" ([1704] 1931, 404). Newton apparently believed that such a strategy was necessitated by human cognitive... | |
 | Sergio L. de C. Fernandes - Philosophy - 1985 - 302 pages
...the received view of those methods. We should not interpret Kant as echoing the received view that "the Method of Analysis ought ever to precede the Method of Composition" (Newton 1952, 405). When Kant says, for example, at KRV, A 10/B 14, that "analytic judgements are very... | |
 | Charles E. Hummel - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
...philosophy, the Principles and the Optkks. As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from... | |
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