History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1837 - Science |
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... supposed , I have borrowed largely from other writers , both of the histories of special sciences and of philosophy in general * . I have done this without scruple , since the novelty of my work was intended to consist , not in its supe ...
... supposed , I have borrowed largely from other writers , both of the histories of special sciences and of philosophy in general * . I have done this without scruple , since the novelty of my work was intended to consist , not in its supe ...
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... supposed lore of Egypt and the East ; an opinion which has been adopted with regard to the Greek philosophy in general by the most competent judges on a full survey of the evidence " . Indeed , we have no evi- dence whatever that , at ...
... supposed lore of Egypt and the East ; an opinion which has been adopted with regard to the Greek philosophy in general by the most competent judges on a full survey of the evidence " . Indeed , we have no evi- dence whatever that , at ...
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... supposed by many to be their essential error . It is , no doubt , true , that the disregard of experience is a phrase which may be so interpreted as to express almost any defect of philo- sophical method ; since the coincidence of all ...
... supposed by many to be their essential error . It is , no doubt , true , that the disregard of experience is a phrase which may be so interpreted as to express almost any defect of philo- sophical method ; since the coincidence of all ...
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... supposed accidental dis- coveries in science , it will be found , that it was exactly the possession of such an idea which made the accident possible . Pythagoras , assuming the truth of the tradition , must have had an exact and ready ...
... supposed accidental dis- coveries in science , it will be found , that it was exactly the possession of such an idea which made the accident possible . Pythagoras , assuming the truth of the tradition , must have had an exact and ready ...
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... were associated with the stars . Astrology is of very 29 39 Dupuis , vi . 549 . 3 30 Laplace , Hist . Astron . p . 8 . 31 Dupuis , vi . 546 . high antiquity in the East . The stars were supposed ITS EARLY STAGES . 135.
... were associated with the stars . Astrology is of very 29 39 Dupuis , vi . 549 . 3 30 Laplace , Hist . Astron . p . 8 . 31 Dupuis , vi . 546 . high antiquity in the East . The stars were supposed ITS EARLY STAGES . 135.
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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...