The Intellectual Tradition of the West: Copernicus to KafkaMorton Donner, Kenneth Eugene Eble, Robert E. Helbling Scott, Foresman, 1967 - Civilization, Western |
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... believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes , numbers , and slow or rapid movements . I think that if ears , tongues , and noses were removed , shapes and numbers and motions would remain , but not odors or tastes ...
... believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes , numbers , and slow or rapid movements . I think that if ears , tongues , and noses were removed , shapes and numbers and motions would remain , but not odors or tastes ...
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... believe that if Nature and Man are both the works of a Being of perfect goodness , that Being intended Nature as a scheme to be amended , not imitated , by Man . But even though unable to believe that nature , as a whole , is a realiza ...
... believe that if Nature and Man are both the works of a Being of perfect goodness , that Being intended Nature as a scheme to be amended , not imitated , by Man . But even though unable to believe that nature , as a whole , is a realiza ...
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... believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate - bird are of special use to these birds ; we cannot believe that the similar bones in the arm of the monkey , in the fore - leg of the horse , in the wing of the bat ...
... believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate - bird are of special use to these birds ; we cannot believe that the similar bones in the arm of the monkey , in the fore - leg of the horse , in the wing of the bat ...
Contents
Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | 3 |
JOHANNES KEPLER | 18 |
GALILEO GALILEI | 26 |
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