History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... says the father of his- tory , “ I was not able to learn anything , either from the priests or from any one besides , though I ques- tioned them very pressingly . For the Nile is flooded for a hundred days , beginning with the summer ...
... says the father of his- tory , “ I was not able to learn anything , either from the priests or from any one besides , though I ques- tioned them very pressingly . For the Nile is flooded for a hundred days , beginning with the summer ...
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... says , " who wish to be considered great philosophers , ( Ελλήνων τινες επισήμοι βουλόμενοι γενέσθαι σοφίην ) have propounded three ways of accounting for these floods . Two of them , " he adds , " I do not think worthy of record ...
... says , " who wish to be considered great philosophers , ( Ελλήνων τινες επισήμοι βουλόμενοι γενέσθαι σοφίην ) have propounded three ways of accounting for these floods . Two of them , " he adds , " I do not think worthy of record ...
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... says , " to any one capable of reasoning on such subjects ( ἀνδρί γε λογίζεσθαι τοιούτων πέρι ole TE OVTI ) , that the assertion cannot be true . The winds which blow from the southern regions are hot ; the inhabitants are black ; the ...
... says , " to any one capable of reasoning on such subjects ( ἀνδρί γε λογίζεσθαι τοιούτων πέρι ole TE OVTI ) , that the assertion cannot be true . The winds which blow from the southern regions are hot ; the inhabitants are black ; the ...
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... says , " one who has condemned opinions previously promulgated may put forwards his own opinion concerning so obscure a matter , I will state why it seems to me that the Nile is flooded in summer . " This opinion he pro- pounds at first ...
... says , " one who has condemned opinions previously promulgated may put forwards his own opinion concerning so obscure a matter , I will state why it seems to me that the Nile is flooded in summer . " This opinion he pro- pounds at first ...
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... says that the sun draws , or attracts , the water ; a metaphorical term , obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies . This abstract ...
... says that the sun draws , or attracts , the water ; a metaphorical term , obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies . This abstract ...
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