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In your laboratory you may claim to have reduced the universe to a dust of atoms and the atoms themselves to electrical charges — but let us that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire . The sentimental reply is just as superficial ...
In your laboratory you may claim to have reduced the universe to a dust of atoms and the atoms themselves to electrical charges — but let us that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire . The sentimental reply is just as superficial ...
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Wanting a universe that suits it , he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it . He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character , and in his heart considers them incompetent and ' not ...
Wanting a universe that suits it , he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it . He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character , and in his heart considers them incompetent and ' not ...
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With the assumption that Space is finite and spherical goes the belief that the earth which man inhabits stands at the centre of the universe , as Plato and Aristotle maintained . Aristarchus of Samos could not even succeed in giving ...
With the assumption that Space is finite and spherical goes the belief that the earth which man inhabits stands at the centre of the universe , as Plato and Aristotle maintained . Aristarchus of Samos could not even succeed in giving ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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