History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 3J. W. Parker, 1857 - Science |
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... philosophers as illustra- tions , when our sense is in the dark in abstruse inquiries , and when our reason can go no further . ' Gilbert speaks of these phenomena like a genuine in- ductive philosopher , reproving2 those who before him ...
... philosophers as illustra- tions , when our sense is in the dark in abstruse inquiries , and when our reason can go no further . ' Gilbert speaks of these phenomena like a genuine in- ductive philosopher , reproving2 those who before him ...
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... philosophers of the last century , and laboured in the way peculiarly required by that generation ; whose office it was to examine the results , in particular subjects , of the general conception of attraction and repulsion , as ...
... philosophers of the last century , and laboured in the way peculiarly required by that generation ; whose office it was to examine the results , in particular subjects , of the general conception of attraction and repulsion , as ...
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... philosopher to assume , in his theories , causes which are true . ' The usual interpretation of a ' vera causa , ' has been , that it implies causes which , inde- pendently of theoretical calculations , are known to exist by their ...
... philosopher to assume , in his theories , causes which are true . ' The usual interpretation of a ' vera causa , ' has been , that it implies causes which , inde- pendently of theoretical calculations , are known to exist by their ...
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... philosophers who watch the needle with microscopic exactness , rage simultaneously over large tracts of the surface of our globe . This was detected about 1825 by a comparison of the observations of M. Arago at Paris with simul- taneous ...
... philosophers who watch the needle with microscopic exactness , rage simultaneously over large tracts of the surface of our globe . This was detected about 1825 by a comparison of the observations of M. Arago at Paris with simul- taneous ...
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... philosophers have to consider the causes of the secular changes which are found to occur in this mechanical condition , they cannot fail to be driven to electrical , that is , chemical agencies and laws . I can only allude to Gauss's ...
... philosophers have to consider the causes of the secular changes which are found to occur in this mechanical condition , they cannot fail to be driven to electrical , that is , chemical agencies and laws . I can only allude to Gauss's ...
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Page 500 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Page 505 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in His works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Page 92 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 485 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 385 - Zoology has," he says*, in the outset of his Regne Animal, " a principle of reasoning which is peculiar to it, and which it employs with advantage on many occasions : this is the principle of the conditions of existence, vulgarly called the principle of final causes. As nothing can exist if it do not combine all the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts of each being must be co-ordinated in such a manner as to render the total being possible, not only in itself, but...
Page 91 - Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold.
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Page 485 - ... but he has nowhere, I think, so described this process as to make it appear in what department of science we are to place the hypothesis. Are these new species created by the production, at long intervals, of an offspring different in species from the parents ? Or are the species so created produced without parents ? Are they gradually evolved from some embryo substance ? Or do they suddenly start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet?
Page 485 - Out of the ground up rose, As from his lair, the wild beast where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den.
Page 395 - Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just, if we were to assert, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin words, bound together in a Saxon cement; the fragments of the Latin being partly portions introduced directly from the parent quarry, with all their sharp edges, and partly pebbles of the same material, obscured and shaped by long rolling in a Norman or some other channel.