History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... kind ; it may be instructive as well as agreeable ; it may bring before the reader the present form and extent , the future hopes and prospects of science , as well as its past progress . The eminence on which we stand may enable us to ...
... kind ; it may be instructive as well as agreeable ; it may bring before the reader the present form and extent , the future hopes and prospects of science , as well as its past progress . The eminence on which we stand may enable us to ...
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... kind is to be found in the speculations which Herodotus records , relative to the cause of the floods of the Nile . " Concerning the nature of this river , " says the father of history , " I was not able to learn any thing , either from ...
... kind is to be found in the speculations which Herodotus records , relative to the cause of the floods of the Nile . " Concerning the nature of this river , " says the father of history , " I was not able to learn any thing , either from ...
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... kind with which we are here concerned , was little more efficacious than that of his rival . It consists mainly , as may be seen in several of the dialogues , and especially in the Timæus , in the application of notions as loose as ...
... kind with which we are here concerned , was little more efficacious than that of his rival . It consists mainly , as may be seen in several of the dialogues , and especially in the Timæus , in the application of notions as loose as ...
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... kind . The physical speculator of the present day will learn without sur- prise , that such a mode of discussion as this , led to no truths of real or permanent value . The whole mass of the Greek philosophy , there- fore , shrinks into ...
... kind . The physical speculator of the present day will learn without sur- prise , that such a mode of discussion as this , led to no truths of real or permanent value . The whole mass of the Greek philosophy , there- fore , shrinks into ...
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... kind of philosophy may appear too trifling to deserve being dwelt upon , it is important for our purpose so far as to exemplify it , that we may afterwards advance , confident that we have done it no injustice . I will now pass from the ...
... kind of philosophy may appear too trifling to deserve being dwelt upon , it is important for our purpose so far as to exemplify it , that we may afterwards advance , confident that we have done it no injustice . I will now pass from the ...
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Página 340 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 151 - 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...
Página 384 - Descend from Heaven Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing.
Página 562 - Indian race, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, had become estranged from the English and friendly to the French.
Página 184 - Heaven 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...
Página 421 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, "God save him...
Página 275 - The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither.
Página 556 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Página 402 - ... on the summits of the highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. ' Why not as high as the moon ?' said he to himself ; and if so, her motion must be influenced by it ; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby.
Página 184 - 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 sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus