...added, ' where 1 the dictates of Aristotle are still listened to as infallible decree*, ' or -j:here the infancy of science is mistaken for its maturity,...sciences have never flourished ,- and the scholar has 1 m means of ailra-ncing beyond the mere elements of Geometry. ' The author before us very rightly...

...of the accufation is exprefled in a more diftinct and tangible form, relating to a matter of fact. " The Scholar has no means of advancing beyond " the mere elements of Geometry." What are the mere elements of Geometry ? Are Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, are tho properties of...

...Oxford, subjoined to that analysis. 'I'he precise charge against Oxford, is made in these words : ' Where the dictates of Aristotle are still listened...mathematical sciences have never flourished, and the scholar lias no means of advancing beyond the mere elements of geometry.' — No. XXII. p. 283. To this it...

...argument remains just the same ! The third and last article of the charge was expressed in these words : " The scholar has no means " of advancing beyond the mere elements of geo" metry." The author, knowing that different senses are affixed to this term, instead of asserting...

...with the approbation of his colleagues in the Faculty. The Review had said—alluding to Oxford—" Where the dictates of Aristotle are still listened to as infallible decrees, or where the infancy of science is mistaken for its maturity, the mathematical sciences have never...

...the causes of the lack of scientific knowledge in England, and particularly in the two great centers from which knowledge is supposed to radiate over all...of advancing beyond the mere elements of geometry. The cleverest of the reviewers, the wit, Sidney Smith, reduced the idea of Oxford education to an absurdity:...

...ignorance, the sentence which gave most offence was that in which Oxford was described as a place " where the dictates of Aristotle are still listened...its maturity, the mathematical sciences have never nourished, and the scholar has no means of advancing beyond the mere elements of geometry." These charges...

...review of Laplace's " Traite de Mecanique Celeste" in i8oXi; "In one of these (public institutions), where the dictates of .Aristotle are still listened...seminary the dominion of prejudice is not equally strong; . . . mathematical learning is there the great object of study, but still we must object to the method...

...knowledge is supposed to radiate over all the rest of the island" and to the particular failure of Oxford, "where the dictates of Aristotle are still listened to as infallible decrees." Knight's review of Falconer's Strabo — tendentiously labeled by the Edinburgh Review as "The Oxford...

...inferiority stemmed chiefly, he argued, from the deficiencies of the universities, particularly Oxford, where the dictates of Aristotle are still listened...scholar has no means of advancing beyond the mere elemeors of geometry. This provoked lively discussion at Oxford, and a strong response from Edward...