Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 18Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957 - Electronic journals A journal of cultural and intellectual history. Examines the evolution of ideas and their influence on historical developments. Includes history of philosophy, literature, the natural and social sciences, religion, and culture in general. |
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Page 37
... whole is like a tree whose roots are metaphysics , whose trunk is physics , and whose branches , which issue from this trunk , are all the other sciences . They reduce themselves to three principal ones , viz . medicine , mechanics and ...
... whole is like a tree whose roots are metaphysics , whose trunk is physics , and whose branches , which issue from this trunk , are all the other sciences . They reduce themselves to three principal ones , viz . medicine , mechanics and ...
Page 76
... whole theory of motions . Rational mechanics " shews , when the powers or forces are given , how to determine the motions that are produced by them ; and , conversely , when the phaenomena of motions are given , how to trace the powers ...
... whole theory of motions . Rational mechanics " shews , when the powers or forces are given , how to determine the motions that are produced by them ; and , conversely , when the phaenomena of motions are given , how to trace the powers ...
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... whole subsequent development : to him , the ( unobservable ) ' first cre- ated form ' was made to carry the whole of the explanation , whereas to Darwin it stood only for the postulation of an organism capable of reproducing itself with ...
... whole subsequent development : to him , the ( unobservable ) ' first cre- ated form ' was made to carry the whole of the explanation , whereas to Darwin it stood only for the postulation of an organism capable of reproducing itself with ...
Contents
The Double Martyrdom of Randolph Bourne | 4 |
T H Huxleys Treatment of Nature | 112 |
COPYRIGHT 1957 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS | 146 |
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