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Almost all of the modern authors that consider physics and natural history merely extend the old arguments o ...antiquity resorted to a Prime Mover, itself unmovable and indivisible. A modern philosopher has not only recognized God as the author of all motion of mate ...

...tion—except badness itself, he means of course—the same number of plebeian authors whose works are so bad. But his implied satire on aristocratic writing forg ...en so often recited for the purity of its style, a purity which transcends modern printing. Perhaps some readers may think that Swift cared little for Whisto ...

...en-thousandth'' part of a unit, that is, to ''four'' places of decimals. A modern classical dictionary represents it as done by Philo to ''ten thousand'' pla ...l further showing: Murhard{{ref|29}} and Kastner{{ref|30}} have nothing so early. It is edited by Lucas Gauricus,{{ref|31}} who has given a short preface. L ...

...certain he would have published, speaking of the safety with which various authors may be read after his cautions, says, "Toleratur et Nicolaus Copernicus qui ...d has been reprinted abroad, and seriously answered. Craig is known in the early history of fluxions, and was a good mathematician. {{pagenum|130}} He profe ...

...ing proof, and insist, against the authors, on the very point on which the authors had themselves insisted beforehand. ...teeple than have rejected the Goodwin Sands. They would have laughed their modern imitators to scorn: but as they are not here, we do it for them. ...

...as, and great as his book really is, he is not the philosophical father of modern discovery. ...us'', vol. xli, Dec. 31, 1855), was written to support the mythical Bacon, modern physics, against the real Bacon of the ''Novum Organum''. There is no ''spe ...

...s Christ, exhibited, and its advantages and claims maintained, against all Modern and {{pagenum|346}} merely Human Institutions of the kind: A Letter very re ..."Contributors" etc., from the Acts of the Apostles, etc., and some of the early Fathers. He holds that a Christian may not "make a ''private'' provision ag ...

...ehalf of injured science, from the opinions and proceedings of some modern authors of elements of geometry. By George Douglas.{{ref|525}} Edinburgh, 1810, 8vo ...ngelista Torriano. I cannot say I read it. The tract above is an attack on modern mathematicians in general, and on the Board of Longitude, and Dr. Young.{{r ...

...isadvantage of being in advance of his age. He had the notion of which the modern geometry has made so much, that of {{pagenum|60}} a circle being the polygo ...f|133}} in {{pagenum|63}} his ''Martyrologium Romanum'', refers to several authors who have written concerning him. There is an account in Mrs. Jameson's{{ref ...

...eem very seriously to invalidate some of the most important conclusions of modern astronomy," while the ''Norfolk Herald'' is clear that "there must be a gre ...f metrology which is supposed to have left strong traces in the systems of modern times; showing the Egyptians to have had good approximate knowledge of the ...