History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... described my history in any manner which implied that the sciences which it embraces are partially selected or arbitrarily limited . Those of which the progress is exhibited in the present volumes , appear to me to form a connected and ...
... described my history in any manner which implied that the sciences which it embraces are partially selected or arbitrarily limited . Those of which the progress is exhibited in the present volumes , appear to me to form a connected and ...
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... described or exemplified , but of all these the most proper is when we say a thing is in a vessel , and generally in place . He next examines what place is , and comes to this conclusion , that " if about a body there be another body ...
... described or exemplified , but of all these the most proper is when we say a thing is in a vessel , and generally in place . He next examines what place is , and comes to this conclusion , that " if about a body there be another body ...
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... described as eternal and self - subsisting , forming an " intelligible world , " full of the models or archetypes of created things . But it is not to our purpose here to con- sider the Platonic Ideas in their theological bearings . In ...
... described as eternal and self - subsisting , forming an " intelligible world , " full of the models or archetypes of created things . But it is not to our purpose here to con- sider the Platonic Ideas in their theological bearings . In ...
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... described as employed by the Greek schools , failed altogether in their application to physics . No discovery of general laws , no explanation of special phenomena , rewarded the acuteness and boldness of these early students of nature ...
... described as employed by the Greek schools , failed altogether in their application to physics . No discovery of general laws , no explanation of special phenomena , rewarded the acuteness and boldness of these early students of nature ...
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... described , they also pro- duced the intervals above mentioned . This observa- tion gave an arithmetical measure of the principal musical intervals , and made music an arithmetical subject of 102 PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN ANCIENT GREECE ...
... described , they also pro- duced the intervals above mentioned . This observa- tion gave an arithmetical measure of the principal musical intervals , and made music an arithmetical subject of 102 PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN ANCIENT GREECE ...
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