Humboldt, Alexander von: Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Bd. 3. Stuttgart u. a., 1850.
usque centra solis et planetarum, sine virtutis diminutione; quaeque agit non pro quantitate superficierum particularum, in quas agit (ut solent causae mechanicae), sed pro quantitate materiae solidae. -- Rationem harum gravitatis proprietatum ex phaenomenis nondum potui deducere et hypotheses non fingo. Satis est quod gravitas revera existat et agat secundum leges a nobis expositas. Newton, Principia Phil. nat. p. 676. -- To tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion and leave their causes to be found out. Newton, Opticks p. 377. Früher, Query 31 p. 351, heißt es: Bodies act one upon another by the attraction of gravity, magnetism and electricity, and it is not improbable that there may be more attractive powers than these. How these attractions may be performed, I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by impulse or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only in general any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause. 41 (S. 23.) I suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser without them. Operum Newtoni Tomus IV. (ed. 1782 Sam. Horsley) p. 386, mit Anwendung auf die Erklärung der von Grimaldi entdeckten Diffraction oder Lichtbeugung. Am Schlusse des Briefes von Newton an Robert Boyle vom Febr. 1678 p. 394 heißt es: I shall set down one conjecture more which came into my mind: it is about the cause of gravity ....... Auch die Correspondenz mit Oldenburg vom December 1675 beweist, daß der große Mann damals den Aether-Hypothesen nicht abgeneigt war. Nach diesen sollte der Stoß des materiellen Lichtes den Aether in Schwingung setzen; die Schwingungen des Aethers allein, welcher Verwandtschaft mit einem Nerven-Fluidum hat, erzeugten nicht das Licht. S. über den Streit mit Hooke Horsley T. IV. p. 378-380. usque centra solis et planetarum, sine virtutis diminutione; quaeque agit non pro quantitate superficierum particularum, in quas agit (ut solent causae mechanicae), sed pro quantitate materiae solidae. — Rationem harum gravitatis proprietatum ex phaenomenis nondum potui deducere et hypotheses non fingo. Satis est quod gravitas revera existat et agat secundum leges a nobis expositas. Newton, Principia Phil. nat. p. 676. — To tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion and leave their causes to be found out. Newton, Opticks p. 377. Früher, Query 31 p. 351, heißt es: Bodies act one upon another by the attraction of gravity, magnetism and electricity, and it is not improbable that there may be more attractive powers than these. How these attractions may be performed, I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by impulse or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only in general any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause. 41 (S. 23.) I suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser without them. Operum Newtoni Tomus IV. (ed. 1782 Sam. Horsley) p. 386, mit Anwendung auf die Erklärung der von Grimaldi entdeckten Diffraction oder Lichtbeugung. Am Schlusse des Briefes von Newton an Robert Boyle vom Febr. 1678 p. 394 heißt es: I shall set down one conjecture more which came into my mind: it is about the cause of gravity ....... Auch die Correspondenz mit Oldenburg vom December 1675 beweist, daß der große Mann damals den Aether-Hypothesen nicht abgeneigt war. Nach diesen sollte der Stoß des materiellen Lichtes den Aether in Schwingung setzen; die Schwingungen des Aethers allein, welcher Verwandtschaft mit einem Nerven-Fluidum hat, erzeugten nicht das Licht. S. über den Streit mit Hooke Horsley T. IV. p. 378–380. <TEI> <text> <body> <div n="1"> <div n="2"> <div n="3"> <note xml:id="ftn40-text" prev="ftn40" place="end" n="40"><pb facs="#f0038" n="33"/> usque centra solis et planetarum, sine virtutis diminutione; quaeque agit non pro quantitate superficierum particularum, in quas agit (ut solent causae mechanicae), sed pro quantitate materiae solidae. — Rationem harum gravitatis proprietatum ex phaenomenis nondum potui deducere et hypotheses non fingo. Satis est quod gravitas revera existat et agat secundum leges a nobis expositas. <hi rendition="#g">Newton, Principia Phil. nat.</hi> p. 676. — To tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion and leave their causes to be found out. <hi rendition="#g">Newton, Opticks</hi> p. 377. Früher, Query 31 p. 351, heißt es: Bodies act one upon another by the attraction of gravity, magnetism and electricity, and it is not improbable that there may be more attractive powers than these. How these attractions may be performed, I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by <hi rendition="#g">impulse</hi> or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only in general any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause.</note> <note xml:id="ftn41-text" prev="ftn41" place="end" n="41"> (S. 23.) I suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser without them. <hi rendition="#g">Operum Newtoni</hi> Tomus IV. (ed. 1782 Sam. Horsley) p. 386, mit Anwendung auf die Erklärung der von Grimaldi entdeckten Diffraction oder Lichtbeugung. Am Schlusse des Briefes von Newton an Robert Boyle vom Febr. 1678 p. 394 heißt es: I shall set down one conjecture more which came into my mind: it is about the cause of gravity ....... Auch die Correspondenz mit Oldenburg vom December 1675 beweist, daß der große Mann damals den Aether-Hypothesen nicht abgeneigt war. Nach diesen sollte der Stoß des <hi rendition="#g">materiellen</hi> Lichtes den Aether in Schwingung setzen; die Schwingungen des Aethers allein, welcher Verwandtschaft mit einem Nerven-Fluidum hat, erzeugten nicht das Licht. S. über den Streit mit Hooke <hi rendition="#g">Horsley</hi> T. IV. p. 378–380.</note> </div> </div> </div> </body> </text> </TEI> [33/0038]
⁴⁰ usque centra solis et planetarum, sine virtutis diminutione; quaeque agit non pro quantitate superficierum particularum, in quas agit (ut solent causae mechanicae), sed pro quantitate materiae solidae. — Rationem harum gravitatis proprietatum ex phaenomenis nondum potui deducere et hypotheses non fingo. Satis est quod gravitas revera existat et agat secundum leges a nobis expositas. Newton, Principia Phil. nat. p. 676. — To tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion and leave their causes to be found out. Newton, Opticks p. 377. Früher, Query 31 p. 351, heißt es: Bodies act one upon another by the attraction of gravity, magnetism and electricity, and it is not improbable that there may be more attractive powers than these. How these attractions may be performed, I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by impulse or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only in general any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause.
⁴¹ (S. 23.) I suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser without them. Operum Newtoni Tomus IV. (ed. 1782 Sam. Horsley) p. 386, mit Anwendung auf die Erklärung der von Grimaldi entdeckten Diffraction oder Lichtbeugung. Am Schlusse des Briefes von Newton an Robert Boyle vom Febr. 1678 p. 394 heißt es: I shall set down one conjecture more which came into my mind: it is about the cause of gravity ....... Auch die Correspondenz mit Oldenburg vom December 1675 beweist, daß der große Mann damals den Aether-Hypothesen nicht abgeneigt war. Nach diesen sollte der Stoß des materiellen Lichtes den Aether in Schwingung setzen; die Schwingungen des Aethers allein, welcher Verwandtschaft mit einem Nerven-Fluidum hat, erzeugten nicht das Licht. S. über den Streit mit Hooke Horsley T. IV. p. 378–380.
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