Lectures on the Method of ScienceThomas Banks Strong Clarendon Press, 1906 - 249 sider |
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Side 52 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Side 26 - I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy, or Experimental Philosophy.
Side 26 - Petty), Dr Willis (then an eminent physician in Oxford), and divers others, continued such meetings in Oxford, and brought those Studies into fashion there ; meeting first at Dr Petty's lodgings (in an...
Side 245 - Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
Side 12 - ... 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.
Side 34 - ... it almost asunder, whereon the beast relying, by the fall of the tree falls also down itself, and is able to rise no more.
Side 48 - Bounded and conditioned by cooperant Reason, imagination becomes the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer. Newton's passage from a falling apple to a falling moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination.
Side 30 - BUT the mortallest enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution upon truth, hath been a peremptory adhesion unto authority ; and more especially, the establishing of our belief upon the dictates of antiquity.
Side 30 - Jesuitical conspiracy against both society and religion ; he regarded the use of the newlyinvented optick glasses as immoral, since they perverted the natural sight and made all things appear in an unnatural and, therefore, false light. It was easy, he said, to prove the deceitful and pernicious character of spectacles ; for take two different pairs of spectacle glasses and use them both at the same time, you will not see so well as with one singly ; therefore your microscopes and telescopes, which...
Side 183 - The Rev. Mr. Weems, a Virginian writer, intimates that it would have done a man's heart good to see the gallant young Virginians hastening to the water side, when a vessel arrived from London, each carrying a bundle of the best tobacco under his arm, and taking >back with him a beautiful and virtuous young wife.