History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1J.W. Parker, 1837 |
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... nearly two thousand years . The early philosophers of Greece entered upon the work of physical speculation in a manner which showed the vigour and confidence of the question- ing spirit , as yet untamed by labours and reverses . It was ...
... nearly two thousand years . The early philosophers of Greece entered upon the work of physical speculation in a manner which showed the vigour and confidence of the question- ing spirit , as yet untamed by labours and reverses . It was ...
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... nearly two thousand years ; no single step was made , in addition to the propositions established by Archi- medes , till the time of Galileo and Stevinus . This extraordinary halt will be a subject of attention hereafter ; at present we ...
... nearly two thousand years ; no single step was made , in addition to the propositions established by Archi- medes , till the time of Galileo and Stevinus . This extraordinary halt will be a subject of attention hereafter ; at present we ...
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... nearly proportional to that which they made in statics . As they discovered the true grounds of the doctrine of equilibrium , without obtaining any sound principles concerning motion , so they discovered the law of the reflection of ...
... nearly proportional to that which they made in statics . As they discovered the true grounds of the doctrine of equilibrium , without obtaining any sound principles concerning motion , so they discovered the law of the reflection of ...
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... nearly , of 365 days . The Egyp- tians , as we learn from Herodotus ' , claimed the honour of this discovery . The priests informed 9 Πληιαδων Ατλαγενεων επιτελλομεναων . Αρχεσθ ' αμητοῦ · αροτοιο δε , δυσομενάων . ' Αι δη τοι νυκτας τε ...
... nearly , of 365 days . The Egyp- tians , as we learn from Herodotus ' , claimed the honour of this discovery . The priests informed 9 Πληιαδων Ατλαγενεων επιτελλομεναων . Αρχεσθ ' αμητοῦ · αροτοιο δε , δυσομενάων . ' Αι δη τοι νυκτας τε ...
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... nearly 365 days and a quarter . If a year of 365 days were used , in four years the year would begin a day too soon , when considered with refer- 120 THE GREEK ASTRONOMY . Correction of the Civil Year (Julian Calendar)
... nearly 365 days and a quarter . If a year of 365 days were used , in four years the year would begin a day too soon , when considered with refer- 120 THE GREEK ASTRONOMY . Correction of the Civil Year (Julian Calendar)
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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...