History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Volumen1J.W. Parker, 1837 |
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... look upon the halo of deserved fame which plays round your head ; but still more , to recollect , as one of them said , that your head is far from being the best part about you . May your sojourn in the southern hemisphere be as happy ...
... look upon the halo of deserved fame which plays round your head ; but still more , to recollect , as one of them said , that your head is far from being the best part about you . May your sojourn in the southern hemisphere be as happy ...
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... look forward into the future . I trusted , moreover , that my study of the philosophers of former times had enabled me to appreciate the dis- coveries of the present , and that I should be able to speak of persons now alive , with the ...
... look forward into the future . I trusted , moreover , that my study of the philosophers of former times had enabled me to appreciate the dis- coveries of the present , and that I should be able to speak of persons now alive , with the ...
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... look at the exist- ing condition of human knowledge with complacency and admiration . The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science ; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these ...
... look at the exist- ing condition of human knowledge with complacency and admiration . The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science ; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these ...
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... look to the opinions of men . But tell me this : it appears to you , as you say , that there are certain kinds or ideas ( eidn ) of which things partake and receive ap- plications according to that of which they partake : thus those ...
... look to the opinions of men . But tell me this : it appears to you , as you say , that there are certain kinds or ideas ( eidn ) of which things partake and receive ap- plications according to that of which they partake : thus those ...
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... look at this matter more closely . Among the works of Aristotle , are thirty - eight chapters of " Problems , " which may serve to exem- plify the progress he had really made in the reduc- tion of phenomena to laws and causes . Of these ...
... look at this matter more closely . Among the works of Aristotle , are thirty - eight chapters of " Problems , " which may serve to exem- plify the progress he had really made in the reduc- tion of phenomena to laws and causes . Of these ...
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History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time William Whewell Vista de fragmentos - 1866 |
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Pasajes populares
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...