 | Bernard Jaffe - 1976 - 388 pages
...schoolmaster had also read of Newton's ideas regarding matter. "It seems probable to me," wrote Newton, "that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles ... so very hard as never to wear or break to pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God... | |
 | Morris Berman - 1981 - 364 pages
...— Isaac Newton, from a letter to Henry Oldenberg, 25 January 1675/6 [I]t seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 422 pages
...later: All these things being consider'd, it seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pages
...provide a physical explanation of the action of natural phenomena. It seems very probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, so very hard as never to wear and break into pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God... | |
 | Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - 1986 - 589 pages
...aspiration. The rest, as we have seen, is history. CHAPTER ATOMS TO QUARKS It seems probable to me, that God in the Beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions, as most conduced for the end which He formed them;... | |
 | Vincent G. Potter - 1988 - 292 pages
...ieleologically. Thus, in his famous work on Opticks, Newton tells us that "it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, in such proportion to space, as most conduced to... | |
 | David Furley - 1989 - 280 pages
...and puts him closer to the side of Democritus, on just this one issue. It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy,...impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures and with such other properties and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he... | |
 | 882 pages
...centuries, wrote about elementary particles in his work Opticks: "... it seems probable to me that God in the Beginning formed Matter in solid, massy,...impenetrable, movable Particles of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties and in such Proportions to Space as most conduced to the End for which he... | |
 | J. E. Tiles - 1992 - 448 pages
...ideologically. Thus, in his famous work on Opticks, Newton tells us that "it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such size and figures, and with such other properties, in such proportion to space, as most conduced to... | |
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All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most... 
