History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... Method , in which Bacon so eloquently called upon men to unite their exertions in his day , has , even in ours , been very imperfectly carried into effect . And , even if his plan had been fully executed , it would now require to be ...
... Method , in which Bacon so eloquently called upon men to unite their exertions in his day , has , even in ours , been very imperfectly carried into effect . And , even if his plan had been fully executed , it would now require to be ...
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... methods of research as effective as those to which we owe the clearest and surest portions of our knowledge . Such a renovation and extension of the reform of philosophy appears to belong pecu- liarly to our own time . We may discern no ...
... methods of research as effective as those to which we owe the clearest and surest portions of our knowledge . Such a renovation and extension of the reform of philosophy appears to belong pecu- liarly to our own time . We may discern no ...
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... Methods of Observation of the Greek Astronomers Sect . 4. Period from Hipparchus to Ptolemy . 197 205 Sect . 5. Measures of the Earth 211 Sect . 6. Ptolemy's Discovery of Evection 213 Sect . 7. Conclusion of the History of Greek ...
... Methods of Observation of the Greek Astronomers Sect . 4. Period from Hipparchus to Ptolemy . 197 205 Sect . 5. Measures of the Earth 211 Sect . 6. Ptolemy's Discovery of Evection 213 Sect . 7. Conclusion of the History of Greek ...
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... method ; and yet that out of these germs , no physical science may be developed . We may obtain , by such means , logic and metaphysics , and even geometry and algebra ; but out of such mate- rials we shall never form mechanics and ...
... method ; and yet that out of these germs , no physical science may be developed . We may obtain , by such means , logic and metaphysics , and even geometry and algebra ; but out of such mate- rials we shall never form mechanics and ...
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... method of real inquiry , was the way to success ; but the Greeks followed the former , the verbal or notional course , and failed . If Herodotus , when the notion of the sun's at- tracting the waters of rivers had entered into his mind ...
... method of real inquiry , was the way to success ; but the Greeks followed the former , the verbal or notional course , and failed . If Herodotus , when the notion of the sun's at- tracting the waters of rivers had entered into his mind ...
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