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... century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from such an observation - based study of the workings of the natural world . The study itself was not called natural science but natural philosophy . Science , as the ...
... century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from such an observation - based study of the workings of the natural world . The study itself was not called natural science but natural philosophy . Science , as the ...
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... century , might be translated as ' know- ledge ' . But , as remarked in the last section , what seventeenth- century philosophers understood by ' knowledge ' was not quite what we do now . To understand their idea we need to under ...
... century , might be translated as ' know- ledge ' . But , as remarked in the last section , what seventeenth- century philosophers understood by ' knowledge ' was not quite what we do now . To understand their idea we need to under ...
Page 104
... centuries B.C. , with the philo- sophers Leucippus , Democritus , and Epicurus . It was then taken up afresh and revitalised in the seventeenth century by Galileo , Gassendi , and Hobbes . ' It had patrons in the Royal Society and is ...
... centuries B.C. , with the philo- sophers Leucippus , Democritus , and Epicurus . It was then taken up afresh and revitalised in the seventeenth century by Galileo , Gassendi , and Hobbes . ' It had patrons in the Royal Society and is ...
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Chapter 2 | 53 |
Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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