Isis, Volume 4

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George Sarton
University of Chicago Press, 1922
Last issue of the year is an annual bibliography with title: Critical bibliography of the history and philosophy of science and of the history of civilization, 1913- ; Critical bibliography, -1988: Current bibliography of the history of science and its cultural influences, 1989-
 

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Page 386 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is, that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old.
Page 373 - civilization has moved, is moving, and will move in a desirable direction " has been compared with the concepts of Fate, Providence, or personal immortality.
Page 210 - The work will be carried on under the name of « the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with the American Asiatic Association and Asia Magazine", the field work will last five years, and the estimated cost is $ 250.000.
Page 85 - Russia, Mongolia, China, being some record of the relations between them from the beginning of the XVIIth century to the death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich AD 1602-1676, rendered mainly in the form of narratives dictated or written by the envoys sent by the Russian Tsars, or their voevodas in Siberia to the Kalmuk and Mongol Khans & Princes; and to the Emperors of China...
Page 484 - Now methinks is the place, herein to prove this point also that no bodily thing can by its own power be borne upwards and travel upwards; that the bodies of flames may not in this manner lead you into error. For they are begotten with an upward tendency, and in the same direction receive increase, and goodly crops and trees grow upwards, though their weights, so far as in them is, all tend downwards.
Page 489 - ... his view), the velocity of the movements of their particles, ought to be found by multiplying the heat of each by its weight and dividing the sum of the product by the aggregate weight. Hence if equal weights of matter be mixed, the temperature ought to be a mean ; and if equal bulks, it ought to be as much nearer the previous temperature of the heavier substance as the weight of the latter is greater ; but the opposite is in most instances true. When equiponderant quantities of mercury and water...
Page 590 - IX. DIRCK GERRITSZ. POMP, alias Dirck Gerritsz. China. De eerste Nederlander die China en Japan bezocht, 1544—1604. Zijn reis naar en verblijf in Zuid-Amerika. Grootendeels naar Spaansche bescheiden bewerkt door JW IJZERMAN. 1915.
Page 211 - The International Union of Academies and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Page 10 - If a straight line falling on two other straight lines, make the alternate angles equal to one another, the two straight lines shall be parallel to one another.
Page 484 - ... earth with fresh light and the different birds flitting about the pathless woods through the buxom air fill all places with their clear notes, we see it to be plain and evident to all how suddenly the sun after rising is wont at such a time to overspread all things and clothe them with his light. But that heat which the sun emits and that bright light pass not through empty void; and therefore they are forced to travel more slowly, until they cleave through the waves so to speak of air.

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