 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
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 1860 - 604 pages
...his predecessors. Thus he says4, "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... | |
 | William Lister - Future life - 1861 - 480 pages
...in the same philosophic spirit. ' 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 456 pages
...the close of the Optics, he says : " 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other SIR W. HAMILTON. The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition. SIR I. NEWTON. The word Analysis signifies the general and particular heads of a discourse, with their... | |
 | Percy Strutt - Bible - 1877 - 480 pages
...more fully the method which he followed in his inquiries. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other SIR W. HAMILTON. The investigation of our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments; and, as she robs the senses of every SIR I. NKWTON. The word Analysis signifies the general and particular heads of a discourse, wilh their... | |
 | E. Janes - Intellect - 1884 - 224 pages
...induction in the following passage: "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... | |
 | John Venn - Induction (Logic) - 1889 - 628 pages
...text of an interesting discussion. "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 conclusions from them... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - Argon - 1896 - 308 pages
...directions. He says emphatically, " 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." — " Opticks," 3rd edition, p. 380. We have, so to speak, pulled down the universe, and taken it to... | |
 | James Welton - Logic - 1896 - 374 pages
...31) ; " As ^nF°f^. " in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the investiga- (::) Synthe" tion 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... | |
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