The Bases of Modern ScienceE. Benn, 1928 - 246 páginas |
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... Phenomena were ordered in accordance with their bearing on human purposes . Man was at the centre of a dependent universe . The sun existed to give him warmth and light , and rain fell to nourish his crops . This was the guiding ...
... Phenomena were ordered in accordance with their bearing on human purposes . Man was at the centre of a dependent universe . The sun existed to give him warmth and light , and rain fell to nourish his crops . This was the guiding ...
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... phenomena , not the " how " of phenomena , was the question that interested the mediaeval mind . The mediaeval universe was informed through and through with purpose . Men did not interpret the temporal passage of Nature as a bare ...
... phenomena , not the " how " of phenomena , was the question that interested the mediaeval mind . The mediaeval universe was informed through and through with purpose . Men did not interpret the temporal passage of Nature as a bare ...
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... phenomena was sufficient to ensure its triumph . In saying this , however , we must remem- ber that the Copernican scheme was perhaps put forward merely as a mathematical device . Coper- nicus's scheme , like that of Ptolemy that it ...
... phenomena was sufficient to ensure its triumph . In saying this , however , we must remem- ber that the Copernican scheme was perhaps put forward merely as a mathematical device . Coper- nicus's scheme , like that of Ptolemy that it ...
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... phenomena of the stars , I thought I also might readily be allowed to experiment whether , by supposing the earth to have some motion , stronger demonstrations than those of the others could be found as to the revolution of the ...
... phenomena of the stars , I thought I also might readily be allowed to experiment whether , by supposing the earth to have some motion , stronger demonstrations than those of the others could be found as to the revolution of the ...
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... phenomena being as they were was that they fulfilled certain mathematical relations . The Coper- nican hypothesis was not regarded by Kepler as a mathematical device . Its mathematical simplicity and aesthetic charm was the proof that ...
... phenomena being as they were was that they fulfilled certain mathematical relations . The Coper- nican hypothesis was not regarded by Kepler as a mathematical device . Its mathematical simplicity and aesthetic charm was the proof that ...
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Página 22 - It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 28 - Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external, and by another name is called duration...
Página 28 - Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces; which our senses determine by its position to bodies; and which is commonly taken for immovable space...
Página 33 - At first, when the relative motion of the water in the vessel was greatest, it produced no endeavour to recede from the axis; the water showed no tendency to the circumference, nor any ascent towards the sides of the vessel, but remained of a plain surface, and therefore its true circular motion had not yet begun. But afterwards, when the relative motion of the water had decreased, the ascent thereof towards the sides of the vessel proved its endeavour to recede from the axis; and this endeavour...
Página 29 - ... cavity which the body fills and which therefore moves together with the ship, and relative rest is the continuance of the body in the same part of the ship or of its cavity. But real, absolute rest is the continuance of the body in the same part of that immovable space in which the ship itself, its cavity, and all that it contains is moved.
Página 32 - The effects which distinguish absolute from relative motion are, the forces of receding from the axis of circular motion. For there are no such forces in a circular motion purely relative, but in a true and absolute circular motion, they are greater or less, according to the quantity of the motion.
Página 76 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Página 42 - Seeing therefore the variety of Motion which we find in the World is always decreasing, there is a necessity of conserving and recruiting it by active Principles...
Página 46 - Others may suppose it multitudes of unimaginable small and swift corpuscles of various sizes springing from shining bodies at great distances one after another, but yet without any sensible interval of time...
Página 29 - But if the earth also moves, the true and absolute motion of the body will arise, partly from the true motion of the earth, in immovable space; partly from the relative motion of the ship on the earth...