History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Volumen1J.W. Parker, 1837 |
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... empirical maxim of weather - wisdom taken from the climate of Greece . " Libya , " he says , " has neither rain nor ice , and therefore no snow ; for , in five days after a fall of snow there must be a fall of rain PRELUDE . 29.
... empirical maxim of weather - wisdom taken from the climate of Greece . " Libya , " he says , " has neither rain nor ice , and therefore no snow ; for , in five days after a fall of snow there must be a fall of rain PRELUDE . 29.
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From the Earliest to the Present Times William Whewell. fall of snow there must be a fall of rain ; so that if it snowed in those regions it must rain too . " I need not observe that Herodotus was not aware of the difference between the ...
From the Earliest to the Present Times William Whewell. fall of snow there must be a fall of rain ; so that if it snowed in those regions it must rain too . " I need not observe that Herodotus was not aware of the difference between the ...
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... fall in , both with the requisi- tions of the reason and the testimony of sense . But this was not the direction which the Greek speculators took . On the contrary ; as soon as they had introduced into their philosophy any abstract and ...
... fall in , both with the requisi- tions of the reason and the testimony of sense . But this was not the direction which the Greek speculators took . On the contrary ; as soon as they had introduced into their philosophy any abstract and ...
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... falls in very closely with what has been said , that he takes his facts and generalisations as they are implied in the structure of language . " We must in all cases proceed , " he says , " from what is known to what is 42 THE GREEK ...
... falls in very closely with what has been said , that he takes his facts and generalisations as they are implied in the structure of language . " We must in all cases proceed , " he says , " from what is known to what is 42 THE GREEK ...
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... fall naturally . In such a philosophy every new result of observation would be compelled to conform to the usual combinations of phrases , as they had been associated by the modes of apprehension previously familiar . It is not intended ...
... fall naturally . In such a philosophy every new result of observation would be compelled to conform to the usual combinations of phrases , as they had been associated by the modes of apprehension previously familiar . It is not intended ...
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Página 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...
Página 425 - Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...