Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it — an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis — it would embrace... Newtonian Physics - Sayfa 17Benjamin Crowell tarafından - 2001 - 225 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1902 - 238 sayfa
...of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it — an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to... | |
| Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 436 sayfa
...which it will. DE MORGAN, A. Transactions Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 8 (1844), P- 188. 1920. Given for one instant an intelligence which could...nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis,... | |
| William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 522 sayfa
...Newton's Prindpia. In his confidence in the extending range of mathematical methods Laplace says : — Given for one instant an intelligence which could...nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis,... | |
| Edgar Pierce - 1924 - 460 sayfa
...alone in this view. Thus Laplace holds that "an intelligence which, for a given instant, should know all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings composing it, if further it was sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis, would include... | |
| J.L. Lopes, M. Paty - 1977 - 334 sayfa
...central position in the age of reason as evidenced not least in the famous statement of Laplace (1814): "Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it -an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis... | |
| F. Kraupl Taylor - 1979 - 152 sayfa
...predestined, by mechanistic laws. Laplace (1814) gave expression to this conviction, when he said: 'Given for one instant an intelligence which could...forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it - an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to... | |
| Thomas Steven Molnar - 1980 - 244 sayfa
...achieve the breakthrough to a universal science predicated on the total knowledge at any one time of 'all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the entities which compose it'. Implicit in the formula is the assumption that all entities are material... | |
| David B. Min, Thomas H. Smouse - 1985 - 322 sayfa
...Laplace in his 1812 introduction to the "Theorie Analytique des Probabilities" are most appropriate: "Given for one instant an intelligence which could...nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis,... | |
| Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba - 1985 - 422 sayfa
...of its previous state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant a mind which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it— a mind sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis... | |
| Lesslie Newbigin - 1986 - 164 sayfa
...mathematical terms. Consequently, to quote Laplace, "An intelligence which knew at one moment of time all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the entities which compose it ... would embrace in the same formula the movements of the largest bodies... | |
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