History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... bodies are filled with air , and air is something . These opinions had even been supported by reference to experiment . On the one hand , Anaxagoras and his school had shown , that air when confined , re- sisted compression , by ...
... bodies are filled with air , and air is something . These opinions had even been supported by reference to experiment . On the one hand , Anaxagoras and his school had shown , that air when confined , re- sisted compression , by ...
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... bodies could not move up and down , which it is in their nature to do . It is easily seen that such a mode of reasoning elevates the familiar forms of language and the intellectual con- nexions of terms , to a supremacy over facts ...
... bodies could not move up and down , which it is in their nature to do . It is easily seen that such a mode of reasoning elevates the familiar forms of language and the intellectual con- nexions of terms , to a supremacy over facts ...
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... bodies . Fire is hot and dry ; air is hot and wet ( for steam is air ) ; water is cold and wet , earth is cold and dry . " It may be remarked that this disposition to assume that some common elementary quality must exist in the cases in ...
... bodies . Fire is hot and dry ; air is hot and wet ( for steam is air ) ; water is cold and wet , earth is cold and dry . " It may be remarked that this disposition to assume that some common elementary quality must exist in the cases in ...
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... bodies ; and this assumption of absolute levity , which is evi- dently gratuitous , or rather merely nominal , entirely vitiated the whole of the succeeding reasoning . The inference was , that fire must be absolutely light , since it ...
... bodies ; and this assumption of absolute levity , which is evi- dently gratuitous , or rather merely nominal , entirely vitiated the whole of the succeeding reasoning . The inference was , that fire must be absolutely light , since it ...
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... bodies . We must take , therefore , not all the contrarieties of quality , but those only which have reference to the touch . Thus black and white , sweet and bitter , do not differ as tangible qualities , and therefore must be rejected ...
... bodies . We must take , therefore , not all the contrarieties of quality , but those only which have reference to the touch . Thus black and white , sweet and bitter , do not differ as tangible qualities , and therefore must be rejected ...
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