Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Cotes , Roger (1803), Preface to Newton's Principia, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Retrieved on 2012-08-27
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    27 AUG 2012

     Three Classes of Natural Philosopher

    THOSE who have treated of natural pilosophy, may be nearly reduced to three classes. Of these some have been attributed to the several species of things, specific and occult qualities; on which, in a manner unknown, they make the operations of the several bodies to depend. The sum of the doctrine of the Schools derived from Aristotle and the Peripatetics is herein contained. They affirm that the several effects of the bodies arise from the particular natures of those bodies ari?e from the par...
    Folksonomies: philosophy hypothesis
    Folksonomies: philosophy hypothesis
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    Those who name things, but give them no meaning, those who extrapolate big ideas from observed phenomena, but ideas subject to fancy, and those content to describe the simple basic principles and leave it at that.

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