A Short History of ScienceMacmillan, 1917 - 474 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... interests and to encourage the practice of discriminating scientific reading . There are of course excellent treatises on the history of partic- ular sciences , but these are as a rule addressed to specialists , and concern themselves ...
... interests and to encourage the practice of discriminating scientific reading . There are of course excellent treatises on the history of partic- ular sciences , but these are as a rule addressed to specialists , and concern themselves ...
Σελίδα xi
... Interest -Tycho Brahe - Uraniborg - Kepler - Galileo - Medical and Chemical Sciences - Anatomy : Vesalius in Natural History . PAGE 156 172 191 CHAPTER XI PROGRESS OF MathematICS AND MECHANICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY • - · Aims and ...
... Interest -Tycho Brahe - Uraniborg - Kepler - Galileo - Medical and Chemical Sciences - Anatomy : Vesalius in Natural History . PAGE 156 172 191 CHAPTER XI PROGRESS OF MathematICS AND MECHANICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY • - · Aims and ...
Σελίδα 3
... most interesting of these , Man's Place in Nature , by Huxley , is now a classic . Another , also somewhat out of date but still very valuable , entitled 66 - Anthropology , " is of special interest because EARLY CIVILIZATIONS 3.
... most interesting of these , Man's Place in Nature , by Huxley , is now a classic . Another , also somewhat out of date but still very valuable , entitled 66 - Anthropology , " is of special interest because EARLY CIVILIZATIONS 3.
Σελίδα 4
... interest because its author , E. B. Tylor , was the founder of the science and is still living ( in 1916 ) .1 THE CHILDHOOD OF THE RACE . There is reason to believe that the human race , in its long and slow development , has passed ...
... interest because its author , E. B. Tylor , was the founder of the science and is still living ( in 1916 ) .1 THE CHILDHOOD OF THE RACE . There is reason to believe that the human race , in its long and slow development , has passed ...
Σελίδα 23
... interest and progress in real science . Ultimately both have had to be torn away , as the scaffolding from a cathedral , in the never ending process of releasing truth from error . PRIMITIVE COUNTING . - On the arithmetical side the ...
... interest and progress in real science . Ultimately both have had to be torn away , as the scaffolding from a cathedral , in the never ending process of releasing truth from error . PRIMITIVE COUNTING . - On the arithmetical side the ...
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Σελίδα 341 - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind...
Σελίδα 351 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion.
Σελίδα 199 - 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...
Σελίδα 399 - I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him and relieve his necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Σελίδα 300 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Σελίδα 331 - Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who compose it an intelligence sufficiently vast to submit these data to analysis it would embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom...
Σελίδα 269 - 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, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Σελίδα 422 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Σελίδα 399 - I swear by Apollo the physician and Aesculapius and health and all-heal and all the gods and goddesses that according to my ability and judgment I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents...
Σελίδα 39 - Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father : I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears ; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.