History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1J.W. Parker, 1837 |
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... namely , that the Nile proceeds from the melting of the snow . Now the Nile flows out of Libya , and through Ethiopia , which are very hot countries , and thus comes into Egypt , which is a colder region . How then can it proceed from ...
... namely , that the Nile proceeds from the melting of the snow . Now the Nile flows out of Libya , and through Ethiopia , which are very hot countries , and thus comes into Egypt , which is a colder region . How then can it proceed from ...
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... namely , the Idea of Mechanical Cause , which is Force ; and the substitution of vague or inappli- cable notions involving only relations of space , or emotions of wonder . The errors of those who failed similarly in other instances ...
... namely , the Idea of Mechanical Cause , which is Force ; and the substitution of vague or inappli- cable notions involving only relations of space , or emotions of wonder . The errors of those who failed similarly in other instances ...
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... namely , the conditions of the floating of bodies . This is the more remarkable , since not only did the principles which Archimedes established on this sub- ject remain unpursued till the revival of science in modern times , but , when ...
... namely , the conditions of the floating of bodies . This is the more remarkable , since not only did the principles which Archimedes established on this sub- ject remain unpursued till the revival of science in modern times , but , when ...
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... namely , the ideas of space and figure , time and number , motion and recurrence . Hence , from their first origin , the modifications of those ideas assume a scientific form . We must now trace in detail the peculiar course which , in ...
... namely , the ideas of space and figure , time and number , motion and recurrence . Hence , from their first origin , the modifications of those ideas assume a scientific form . We must now trace in detail the peculiar course which , in ...
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... namely , that we may see how theories may be highly estimable , though they contain false representations of the real state of things , and may be extremely useful , though they involve unnecessary complexity . In the advance of ...
... namely , that we may see how theories may be highly estimable , though they contain false representations of the real state of things , and may be extremely useful , though they involve unnecessary complexity . In the advance of ...
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Seite 178 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Seite 425 - Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.
Seite xxxiv - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Seite 234 - Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Seite 234 - Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus
Seite 36 - Pythagoreans, from the contrasts which number suggests, collected ten principles, — Limited and Unlimited, Odd and Even, One and Many, Right and Left, Male and Female, Rest and Motion, Straight and Curved, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Square and Oblong. We shall see hereafter, that Aristotle himself deduced the doctrine of four elements, and other dogmas, by oppositions of the same kind.
Seite 253 - It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things.
Seite 410 - And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted or reflected, may not waves of vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence...
Seite 511 - This index of refraction is still more materially affected when a body passes from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous condition...
Seite 40 - Aristotle, in a passage already cited, "decides that there is no void on such arguments as this : in a void there could be no difference of up and down; for as in nothing there are no differences, so there are none in a privation or negation; but a void is merely a privation or negation...