Dissertations on the Progress of KnowledgeArno Press, 1975 - 477 pagina's |
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Pagina 145
... less inclined to reject it as altogether unworthy of attention . It is far from being so metaphysically abstruse as the reasonings of Newton and Clarke , founded on our conceptions of space and of time ; nor would it appear , per- haps , ...
... less inclined to reject it as altogether unworthy of attention . It is far from being so metaphysically abstruse as the reasonings of Newton and Clarke , founded on our conceptions of space and of time ; nor would it appear , per- haps , ...
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... less than the area required . It was also evi- dent , that , by increasing the number , and diminishing the sides of those figures , the two limits might be brought continually nearer to one another , and of course nearer to the cur ...
... less than the area required . It was also evi- dent , that , by increasing the number , and diminishing the sides of those figures , the two limits might be brought continually nearer to one another , and of course nearer to the cur ...
Pagina 84
... less abstruse nature , and more immediately con- nected with experiment , which , for a time , resisted the progress of the Newtonian phi- losophy , though they contributed , in the end , very materially to its advancement . Nothing ...
... less abstruse nature , and more immediately con- nected with experiment , which , for a time , resisted the progress of the Newtonian phi- losophy , though they contributed , in the end , very materially to its advancement . Nothing ...
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