| William Whewell - 1837 - 516 páginas
...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." We have already explained that, in attributing three motions to the earth, Copernicus had presented... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 páginas
...step: and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." We have already explained that, in attributing three motions to the earth, Copernicus had presented... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 518 páginas
...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...which he assumes, are proceedings which mark a man who tMnks nothing of introducing fictions of any kind into nature, provided his calculations turn out well."... | |
| William Whewell - 1857 - 440 páginas
...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some other ihings which he assumes, are proceedings which mark a man who thinks nothing of introducing fictions... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 622 páginas
...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some > Jlntnii, vol. ip 140. ' 11). vol. ip 179. other things which he assumes, are proceedings which mark... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 582 páginas
...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some » Opere di Giordano Bruno, vol. ip 146. • Ib. vol. ip 179. VOL. I.— 18 other things which he assumes,... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 566 páginas
...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some 4 Opere di Giordano JBruno, vol. ip 146. 5 Ib. vol. ip 179. other things which he assumes, are proceedings... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 páginas
...investigation into Heat. One sentence alone would suffice to show this, namely, his sneer at Copernicus as ' a man who thinks nothing of introducing fictions of...into nature, provided his calculations turn out well : ' Bacon did not understand, what Copernicus profoundly saw, that the only value of an hypothesis... | |
| 1870 - 394 páginas
...Bacon, who with all his wisdom and meanness disparaged the great Copernicus, pronouncing his theories as "proceedings which mark a man who thinks nothing of...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." This corrupi judge doubted whether instruments were of any practical advantage, while Galileo was studying... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1874 - 456 páginas
...so little has it been appreciated that most people would echo Bacon's sneer at Copernicus as " the man who thinks nothing of introducing fictions of...Nature, provided his calculations turn out well." The answer to this sneer is the triumphant achievements which are effected by the introduction of avowed... | |
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