...endeavouring to represent all philosophical systems as mere inventions of the imagination, was insensibly drawn in " to make use of language expressing " the...use of ?* to bind together her several operations." 204. That such has been the progressive improvement of the systems of astronomers, the following brief...

...mere inventions of the " imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and dis" cordant phenomena of nature, have insensibly been drawn in...the slightest degree, the offspring of imagination ; in as much as the principle employed to explain the phenomena is not a hypothesis, but a general...

...of his principles, or have been explained in consequence of more laborious and accurate calculations from these principles, than had been instituted before....If the View which I have given of Lord Bacon's plan ofinvestigation bejust, it will follow, That the Newtonian theory'of gravitation can, in no respect...

...of the heavens in the fancy — not that it is by any means to be regarded as unfolding the actual chains which nature makes use of to bind together her several operations. 32 their merits with reference to any system, either of morals or economy, or to the soundness or fallacy...

...of the heavens in the fancy — not that it is by any means to be regarded as unfolding the actual chains which nature makes use of to bind together her several operations. In the few observations which have been made upon the writings of this illustrious man, as in the short...

...appearances of the heavens in the fancy— not that it is by any means to be regarded as unfolding the actual chains which nature makes use of to bind together her several operations. In the few observations which have been made upon the writings of this illustrious man, as in the short...

...of his principles, or have been explained in consequence of more laborious and accurate calculations from these principles, than had been instituted before....makes use of to bind together her several operations. Can we wonder then, that it should have gained the general and complete approbation of mankind, and...

...invention of the imagination to connect otherwise discordant phenomena, appeared to contain in itself "the real chains which nature makes use of to bind together her several operations." In attributing the History of Astronomy to Oxford and Kirkcaldy I except the concluding pages, which...

...principles are of such 'firmness and solidity' that The most sceptical cannot avoid feeling this.. .And even we, while we have been endeavouring to represent...makes use of to bind together her several operations. Can we wonder then, that it should have gained the general and complete approbation of mankind... 108...

...inventions of the imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and discordant phaenomena of nature, have insensibly been drawn in, to make...makes use of to bind together her several operations. Can we wonder then, that it (Newton's System) should have gained the general and complete approbation...