History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1837 - Science |
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... bodies could not move up and down , which it is in their nature to do . It is easily seen that such a mode of reasoning elevates the familiar forms of language and the intellectual con- nexions of terms , to a supremacy over facts ...
... bodies could not move up and down , which it is in their nature to do . It is easily seen that such a mode of reasoning elevates the familiar forms of language and the intellectual con- nexions of terms , to a supremacy over facts ...
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... bodies . Fire is hot and dry ; air is hot and wet ( for steam is air ) ; water is cold and wet , earth is cold and dry . " It may be remarked that this disposition to assume that some common elementary quality must exist in the cases in ...
... bodies . Fire is hot and dry ; air is hot and wet ( for steam is air ) ; water is cold and wet , earth is cold and dry . " It may be remarked that this disposition to assume that some common elementary quality must exist in the cases in ...
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... bodies ; and this assumption of absolute levity , which is evi- dently gratuitous , or rather merely nominal , entirely vitiated the whole of the succeeding reasoning . The inference was , that fire must be absolutely light , since it ...
... bodies ; and this assumption of absolute levity , which is evi- dently gratuitous , or rather merely nominal , entirely vitiated the whole of the succeeding reasoning . The inference was , that fire must be absolutely light , since it ...
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... bodies tend in converging directions to the centre . And as the heavy tends to the centre , the light tends to the exterior , " for exterior is opposite to centre as heavy is to light1 . " 12 The tendencies of bodies downwards and up ...
... bodies tend in converging directions to the centre . And as the heavy tends to the centre , the light tends to the exterior , " for exterior is opposite to centre as heavy is to light1 . " 12 The tendencies of bodies downwards and up ...
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... bodies are in number ten ; and as nine only were known to them , they asserted that there was an antichthon , or counter - earth , on the other side of the sun , invisible to us . Their opinions respecting numerical ratios , led to ...
... bodies are in number ten ; and as nine only were known to them , they asserted that there was an antichthon , or counter - earth , on the other side of the sun , invisible to us . Their opinions respecting numerical ratios , led to ...
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Page 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...
Page 425 - Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...