The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ; and thus , whatever patience and labor philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought ...
... ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ; and thus , whatever patience and labor philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought ...
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... ancient Rome and Greece . But yet Newton's application and extension of it , had occurred to nobody , not even to Galileo himself , who had not many years before been engaged in investigating the exact amount of its influence , within ...
... ancient Rome and Greece . But yet Newton's application and extension of it , had occurred to nobody , not even to Galileo himself , who had not many years before been engaged in investigating the exact amount of its influence , within ...
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... ancients ; one of whose philoso- phers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle , the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common suction - pump is ...
... ancients ; one of whose philoso- phers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle , the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common suction - pump is ...
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... ancient Greek philosopher , Pr- THAGORAS , is said to have been the first who found out , or at least demonstrated , the great geometrical truth that the square described on the hypotenuse , or side opposite to the right angle of a ...
... ancient Greek philosopher , Pr- THAGORAS , is said to have been the first who found out , or at least demonstrated , the great geometrical truth that the square described on the hypotenuse , or side opposite to the right angle of a ...
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... ancient times . Hiero , king of Syracuse , his friend and patron , and himself an eminent philoso- pher , and , it needs hardly be added , a virtuous and patriotic prince , had set him a problem to solve upon the adulteration of metals ...
... ancient times . Hiero , king of Syracuse , his friend and patron , and himself an eminent philoso- pher , and , it needs hardly be added , a virtuous and patriotic prince , had set him a problem to solve upon the adulteration of metals ...
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