History of Natural Philosophy from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ...Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans and J. Taylor, 1837 - 396 páginas |
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... questions , considerable difference of opi- nion has prevailed , they have now been so fully dis- cussed , that most of them may be considered as com- pletely set at rest ; and we can avail ourselves of the decisions of some late ...
... questions , considerable difference of opi- nion has prevailed , they have now been so fully dis- cussed , that most of them may be considered as com- pletely set at rest ; and we can avail ourselves of the decisions of some late ...
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... questions ) it seems to us extremely impro- bable that the representation was designed with any such object ; indeed , we can never infer much in re- ference to matters of philosophy from passages occurring ( as those in question do ) ...
... questions ) it seems to us extremely impro- bable that the representation was designed with any such object ; indeed , we can never infer much in re- ference to matters of philosophy from passages occurring ( as those in question do ) ...
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... question by antiquarians . Democritus , as well as Archytas and Eudoxus , were followers of the Pythagorean school ; and the two last - named philosophers were among the first who have had the merit of endeavouring to disse- * Diog ...
... question by antiquarians . Democritus , as well as Archytas and Eudoxus , were followers of the Pythagorean school ; and the two last - named philosophers were among the first who have had the merit of endeavouring to disse- * Diog ...
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... question . It is also a remarkable circumstance , that he proceeds to consider the case where the two forces have , as he expressly calls it , no ratio " to each other , and the motion takes place in " no time ; " in which case , he ...
... question . It is also a remarkable circumstance , that he proceeds to consider the case where the two forces have , as he expressly calls it , no ratio " to each other , and the motion takes place in " no time ; " in which case , he ...
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... question this doctrine of Empedocles ; contending that light is not a material sub- stance . He supported this by arguments drawn from its velocity , which he supposed infinite . He seems to have regarded it as something like an impulse ...
... question this doctrine of Empedocles ; contending that light is not a material sub- stance . He supported this by arguments drawn from its velocity , which he supposed infinite . He seems to have regarded it as something like an impulse ...
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History of Natural Philosophy from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Baden Powell Vista de fragmentos - 1834 |
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Página 341 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Página 319 - ... the squares of the periodic times are as the cubes of the distances from the common centre, the centripetal forces will be inversely as the squares of the distances.
Página 187 - This therefore being granted, methinks that in the discussion of natural problems we ought not to begin at the authority of texts of Scripture, but at sensible experiments and necessary demonstrations...
Página 166 - Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Página 265 - The second supposition is this, that all bodies whatsoever that are put into a direct and simple motion, will so continue to move forward in a straight line till they are, by some other effectual powers, deflected, and sent into a motion describing a circle, ellipsis, or some other more compounded curve line. The third supposition is, that these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating by how much the nearer the body wrought upon is to their own centres.
Página 255 - Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad.
Página 155 - I will triumph overmankind by the honest confession, that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians, to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry...
Página 351 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Página 359 - I know not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me.
Página 282 - I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being in my judgment the oddest if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature...