 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 207by Dugald Stewart - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Peter Dear - Science - 1995 - 290 pages
...what appears there as Query 31: 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... | |
 | Alistair Cameron Crombie - Science - 1959 - 372 pages
...query 31 of the Opticks he wrote : 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... | |
 | Mortimer J. Adler - Psychology - 1937 - 246 pages
...scientific method: "As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Thmgs 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... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 2002 - 420 pages
...John Stuart Autobiography V (p. 116) 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... | |
 | J. D. Bernal - Physics - 1997 - 317 pages
...little more as space is limited : 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 [what we call synthesis]. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 2003 - 1616 pages
...Query 31, encapsulates his approach. 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... | |
 | L. Magnani, Nancy J. Nersessian, Paul Thagard - Science - 1999 - 343 pages
...in his Opticks (1704) as follows: "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", where such Analysis proceeds "from Compounds to Ingredients, and from Motions to the Forces producing... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 432 pages
...see no contradiction in all this. 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... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall - Science - 1981 - 379 pages
...CHAPTER IX EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS 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... | |
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