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... Progress . 3. Hermolaus Barbarus , & c . 4. Nicolaus Cusanus . 5. Manilius Ficinus . 6. Francis Patricius . 7. Picus , Agrippa , & c . 8. Paracelsus , Fludd , & c . CHAP . XIII . THE THEORETICAL REFORMERS OF SCIENCE . Bernardinus ...
... Progress . 3. Hermolaus Barbarus , & c . 4. Nicolaus Cusanus . 5. Manilius Ficinus . 6. Francis Patricius . 7. Picus , Agrippa , & c . 8. Paracelsus , Fludd , & c . CHAP . XIII . THE THEORETICAL REFORMERS OF SCIENCE . Bernardinus ...
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... progress of that exact and systematic knowledge which we call Science ; and these doctrines I have endeavoured to lay before the reader in the History of the Sciences and of Scientific Ideas . The questions on which I have thus ventured ...
... progress of that exact and systematic knowledge which we call Science ; and these doctrines I have endeavoured to lay before the reader in the History of the Sciences and of Scientific Ideas . The questions on which I have thus ventured ...
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... progress of sound philosophy . In this estimate of the opinions of others , I shall be guided by those general doctrines which I have , as I trust , established in the histories already published . And without attempting here to give ...
... progress of sound philosophy . In this estimate of the opinions of others , I shall be guided by those general doctrines which I have , as I trust , established in the histories already published . And without attempting here to give ...
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... progress of truth from age to age . In doing this , I can only endeavour to seize some of the most prominent features of each time and of each step , and I must pass rapidly from classical antiquity to those which we have called the ...
... progress of truth from age to age . In doing this , I can only endeavour to seize some of the most prominent features of each time and of each step , and I must pass rapidly from classical antiquity to those which we have called the ...
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... progress of real knowledge . The doctrines , on the other hand , which depend upon geometrical and arithmetical rela- tions are portions or preludes of the sciences which the fulness of time brought forth . 5. I may , as further bearing ...
... progress of real knowledge . The doctrines , on the other hand , which depend upon geometrical and arithmetical rela- tions are portions or preludes of the sciences which the fulness of time brought forth . 5. I may , as further bearing ...
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