 | 1824 - 884 pages
...to encourage philosophical investigations ; viz. that more is owing to what we call chance, that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...write synthetically upon these subjects, but would, 1 doubt not, appear very strikingly in those who are the most celebrated for their philosophical acumen,... | |
 | 1874 - 276 pages
...encourage philosophical investigations ; viz., that more is owing to what we call chance, that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...causes, than to any proper design or preconceived tlieory in this business." The accident of possessing a burning glass " of considerable force " led... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1894 - 406 pages
...to encourage philosophical investigations; viz., that more is owing to what we call chance, that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...proper design or preconceived theory in this business." The accident of possessing a burning glass "of considerable force " led Priestley to try the effect... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - 1901 - 498 pages
...repeated, that in philosophical investigations more is owing to what is called chance — that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...than to any proper design or preconceived theory in the business." How Priestley got at vital air is clearly told by him in his essay On Dephlogisticated... | |
 | 1902 - 466 pages
...to encourage philosophical investigations, viz : that more is owing to what we call chance, that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...design or preconceived theory, in this business." In 1 774 Priestley believed the atmosphere to be a simple, elementary substance, as little destructible... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1906 - 250 pages
...encourage philosophical investigations, viz., that more is owing to what we call chance—that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events arising from unknown causes than to any proper ^__design or preconceived theory in this business. This does not appear in the works of those who write... | |
 | David Henry Peacock - 1919 - 74 pages
...to encourage philosophical' investigations : viz. that more is owing to what we call chance, that is philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...than to any proper design or preconceived theory in the business". Happening to possess a "burning lens of considerable force " (it had a diameter of twelve... | |
 | 1926 - 488 pages
...random haphazard experiments To quote his own words: "That more is owing to what we call chance, that is philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...design or pre-conceived theory in this business." Eck de Sulzbach is probably the first chemist who in 1489 demonstrated experimentally that the metals... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 pages
...to encourage philosophical investigations; viz. that more is owing to what we call chance, that is, philosophically speaking, to the observation of events...doubt not, appear very strikingly in those who are most celebrated for their philosophical acumen, did they write analytically and ingenuously. Lavoisier's... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...arising from unknown [unsuspected] causes, than to any proper design or preconceived theory in the business. This does not appear in the works of those who write synthetically upon these subjects. . . . (Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1776) Superficially one indeed cannot... | |
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... striking illustration of the truth of a remark, which I have more than once made in my philosophical writings, and which can hardly be too often repeated, as it tends greatly to encourage philosophical investigations; viz. that more is owing to what... 