| 1821 - 398 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind, to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...simplicity of nature should not always be measured by our conceptions. It was no sooner discovered that there was an inequality in the equatorial and polar... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind, to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...simplicity of nature should not always be measured by our conceptions. It was no sooner discovered that there was an inequality in the equatorial and polar... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind, to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...simplicity of nature should not always be measured by our conceptions. It was no sooner discovered that there was an inequality in the equatorial and polar... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind, to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...simplicity of nature should not always be measured by our conceptions. It was no sooner discovered that there was an inequality in the equatorial and polar... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...objects to be of that form which he most readily conceives, yet the simplicity of nature is not always measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied...effects, Nature is only simple in her causes ; and her economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often the most complicated, by means of... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...simplicity of nature should not always be measured by our conceptions. Bacon, in his JVovum Organum, in his explanation of what he terms crucial instances,... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pages
...objects to be of that form which he most readily conceives, yet the simplicity of nature is not always measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied...effects, nature is only simple in her causes ; and her economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often the most complicated, by means of... | |
| William Lowthian Green - 1887 - 366 pages
...the size of its radius. The natural inclination of the human mind, to attribute that form to bodies which it comprehends with the greatest facility, disposed...effects, nature is only simple in her causes, and her economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small... | |
| W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 pages
...possibility of confusion or disorder. The economy of nature is thus finely expressed by Laplace : " The simplicity of nature should not always be measured...effects, nature is only simple in her causes, and her economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small... | |
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