The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences 2 THE PURSUIT ...
... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences 2 THE PURSUIT ...
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... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents did Sir Isaac Newton read to the world , for the first time ...
... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents did Sir Isaac Newton read to the world , for the first time ...
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... manner , retained in their orbits by a simi- lar tendency towards their central and ruling lumi- nary . Proceeding then , in the mean time , upon this supposition , he found by calculation , and by com- paring the periods of the several ...
... manner , retained in their orbits by a simi- lar tendency towards their central and ruling lumi- nary . Proceeding then , in the mean time , upon this supposition , he found by calculation , and by com- paring the periods of the several ...
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... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of ...
... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of ...
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... manner in which important truths will sometimes hide themselves for a long while from observation , even after science has approached almost so near as to touch them , is to be found in the history of the different discoveries relating ...
... manner in which important truths will sometimes hide themselves for a long while from observation , even after science has approached almost so near as to touch them , is to be found in the history of the different discoveries relating ...
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