Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Einleitung in die Physic, ca. 1780 Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, introduction to physics, ca. 1780 Göttingen State and University Library
„Mac Laurin‘s defi nition: To describe the Phenomena of nature […], to explain their causes, to trace the relations and dependencies of those causes, and to enquire into the whole constitution of the universe is the business of natural Philosophy. Experimental Physik nennen wir die Naturlehre die nicht auf Grillen gebaut ist sondern auf Versuche.“
„Mac Laurin‘s defi nition: To describe the Phenomena of nature […], to explain their causes, to trace the relations and dependencies of those causes, and to enquire into the whole constitution of the universe is the business of natural Philosophy. Experimental Physics is a theory of the naure which is not built on whims but on experiments.