The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 sider |
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Side 6
... fact and logical theory , it is possible now to give at least a partial answer to some of the primitive human problems . Relative to the rest of the cosmos , we know to some extent what we are , we know to some extent where we are , we ...
... fact and logical theory , it is possible now to give at least a partial answer to some of the primitive human problems . Relative to the rest of the cosmos , we know to some extent what we are , we know to some extent where we are , we ...
Side 30
... fact . A little dulled to wonder , the fabulous in science grow a little stale , these disclosures we read with the nonchalance that we skim the morning paper . They bring no stirring of the ancient awe . But when two centuries ago the ...
... fact . A little dulled to wonder , the fabulous in science grow a little stale , these disclosures we read with the nonchalance that we skim the morning paper . They bring no stirring of the ancient awe . But when two centuries ago the ...
Side 33
... fact . These are living beings , for they grow and reproduce as do other living things , and yet their organisation is so relatively simple that already the chemist , entrenching upon the domain of the physiologist , has caught a ...
... fact . These are living beings , for they grow and reproduce as do other living things , and yet their organisation is so relatively simple that already the chemist , entrenching upon the domain of the physiologist , has caught a ...
Side 36
... fact . With biology lifted to the rank of a physical science , and , in the phrase of Huxley , become a problem in molecular mechanics , we shall turn , I think , from the analogy of the flower and the tree to that of a world machine ...
... fact . With biology lifted to the rank of a physical science , and , in the phrase of Huxley , become a problem in molecular mechanics , we shall turn , I think , from the analogy of the flower and the tree to that of a world machine ...
Side 55
... fact of pro- portion . When for so many horses or slaves or wives a man traded so many skins or sacks of wheat , or weights of meat or roods of land , there came insensibly a sense of abstract values that is , the relations of units of ...
... fact of pro- portion . When for so many horses or slaves or wives a man traded so many skins or sacks of wheat , or weights of meat or roods of land , there came insensibly a sense of abstract values that is , the relations of units of ...
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Alexandria alpha Centauri ancient angle appear Archimedes Arcturus Aristarchus Aristotle astronomer atoms attraction bodies calculated Canopus centre century CHAPTER circle Cleomedes comets computed conceive conception Coppernicus cosmic cosmos curious dark Democritus Descartes diameter discovery distance doubtless earth endeavour Eratosthenes estimate evident existence fact fixed force Galileo globe gravitation Greek Halley heavens Herschel Hipparchus human hundred idea imagine infinite invention Jupiter Kepler knowledge known Laplace larger least less light light-years mass mathematician mathematics matter measure mechanical meteorites method miles million mind minute moon motion nature nebula Newton observed orbit parallax particles perhaps phenomena philosopher physical planetary planets Poseidonius Principia probably problem Ptolemy reached result revolution revolving round satellites Saturn seems sense simply solar system space speed sphere stars stellar Strabo suppose surface telescope theory things thought thousand tion true truth turn universe Uranus vast wonderful WORLD MACHINE
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Side 450 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Side 36 - Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Side 313 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Side 398 - FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail ; A musical but melancholy chime, Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Side 27 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Side 22 - The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look: — Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature, strong and...
Side 450 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Side 40 - GABRIEL Und schnell und unbegreiflich schnelle Dreht sich umher der Erde Pracht; Es wechselt Paradieseshelle Mit tiefer, schauervoller Nacht; Es schäumt das Meer in breiten Flüssen Am tiefen Grund der Felsen auf, Und Fels und Meer wird fortgerissen In ewig schnellem Sphärenlauf.
Side 255 - In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series.
Side 448 - I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.