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... mathematics . All that mathematics can do is to assure us that a statement A is equivalent to statements B , C , D , or is one of the facts expressed by the statements B vii PREFACE -
... mathematics . All that mathematics can do is to assure us that a statement A is equivalent to statements B , C , D , or is one of the facts expressed by the statements B vii PREFACE -
Page viii
... mathematical demonstration , proves the feebleness of the human mind as a logical machine . For it required the new ... mathematics , which even now has not solved directly the problem of only three bodies . These reflections , arising ...
... mathematical demonstration , proves the feebleness of the human mind as a logical machine . For it required the new ... mathematics , which even now has not solved directly the problem of only three bodies . These reflections , arising ...
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... mathematical conception to facilitate the construction of tables for predicting the places of the heavenly bodies . Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C. ) summed up the state of astronomical knowledge in his time , and held the earth to be fixed in ...
... mathematical conception to facilitate the construction of tables for predicting the places of the heavenly bodies . Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C. ) summed up the state of astronomical knowledge in his time , and held the earth to be fixed in ...
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... mathematics are for mathematicians " ( Mathematicis mathematica scribuntur ) . At the same time he expresses his conviction over and over again that the earth is in motion . It is with him a pious belief , just as it was with Pythagoras ...
... mathematics are for mathematicians " ( Mathematicis mathematica scribuntur ) . At the same time he expresses his conviction over and over again that the earth is in motion . It is with him a pious belief , just as it was with Pythagoras ...
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... mathematical conception upon which the solar , planetary , and lunar tables were constructed . The epicycles represented nothing more nor less than the first terms in the Fourier series , which in the last century has become a basis of ...
... mathematical conception upon which the solar , planetary , and lunar tables were constructed . The epicycles represented nothing more nor less than the first terms in the Fourier series , which in the last century has become a basis of ...
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