The New Encyclopædia Britannica in 30 Volumes: Macropædia : Knowledge in Depth. - 19 Bd, Volumes 1-19Encyclopædia Britannica, 1974 |
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... nature reflected in this work . The recovery empirical principle the work of Francis Bacon ; from Greek of the manuscript of Sextus Empiricus , with its carefully mechanism the work of Thomas Hobbes ; and from mathschools argued ...
... nature reflected in this work . The recovery empirical principle the work of Francis Bacon ; from Greek of the manuscript of Sextus Empiricus , with its carefully mechanism the work of Thomas Hobbes ; and from mathschools argued ...
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... nature in influence of deductive mathematics . every detail . The basic idea of the authority and autono- of The concept of serial order stressed by geometry , in my of reason , which dominated all philosophizing in the Newton's which ...
... nature in influence of deductive mathematics . every detail . The basic idea of the authority and autono- of The concept of serial order stressed by geometry , in my of reason , which dominated all philosophizing in the Newton's which ...
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... nature , the Greek atomists Leucippus ( mid - 5th century BC ) , Democritus ( late 5th century BC ) , and Epicurus ( late 4th and early 3rd century BC ) asserted that nature consists of immutable atoms moving in empty space . According ...
... nature , the Greek atomists Leucippus ( mid - 5th century BC ) , Democritus ( late 5th century BC ) , and Epicurus ( late 4th and early 3rd century BC ) asserted that nature consists of immutable atoms moving in empty space . According ...
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