I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period. VI. Mechanics, including fluid mechanics. VII. Physical astronomy. Additions to the 3d edD. Appleton, 1858 |
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... object is noble and worthy of you ; and may your return home be speedy and prosperous , as soon as your purpose is attained . Ever , my dear Herschel , yours , W. WHEWELL . March 22 , 1837 . P. S. So I wrote nearly ten years ago , when ...
... object is noble and worthy of you ; and may your return home be speedy and prosperous , as soon as your purpose is attained . Ever , my dear Herschel , yours , W. WHEWELL . March 22 , 1837 . P. S. So I wrote nearly ten years ago , when ...
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... objects ; the op- erations of the rational faculties , on the other hand , if allowed to go on without a constant reference to external things , can lead only to empty abstraction and barren ingenuity . Real speculative knowledge de ...
... objects ; the op- erations of the rational faculties , on the other hand , if allowed to go on without a constant reference to external things , can lead only to empty abstraction and barren ingenuity . Real speculative knowledge de ...
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... object . To give a real significance to our propositions , Induction must provide what Deduction cannot supply . From a pictured hook we can hang only a pictured chain . Distinction of common Notions and Scientific Ideas . " — When the ...
... object . To give a real significance to our propositions , Induction must provide what Deduction cannot supply . From a pictured hook we can hang only a pictured chain . Distinction of common Notions and Scientific Ideas . " — When the ...
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... object is not to inter- pret nature , but man's mind . The opinions of the Masters are the facts which the Disciples endeavor to reduce to unity , or to follow into consequences . A series of speculators who pursue such a course , may ...
... object is not to inter- pret nature , but man's mind . The opinions of the Masters are the facts which the Disciples endeavor to reduce to unity , or to follow into consequences . A series of speculators who pursue such a course , may ...
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... object . In more limited and more definite examples of inquiry concerning the causes of natural appearances , and in the attempts made to satisfy men's curiosity in such cases , we appear to discern a more genuine prelude to the true ...
... object . In more limited and more definite examples of inquiry concerning the causes of natural appearances , and in the attempts made to satisfy men's curiosity in such cases , we appear to discern a more genuine prelude to the true ...
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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 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 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! The meaning, not the name, I call...
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 184 - Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after art goes out, and all is night. See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head!
Página 40 - 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 87 - ... is at least so far just. 5. We come back again, therefore, to the question, What was the radical and fatal defect in the physical speculations of the Greek philosophical schools ? To this I answer : The defect was, that though they had in their possession Facts and Ideas, the Ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the Facts.
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 72 - The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions ; now three is the most perfect number ; it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number ; of two we say both ; but three is the first number of which we say all; moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Página 294 - I urged as a thing to be sought; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations.