 ... these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind? The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions...  Science - Page 259edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter: and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity in the most remote parts. The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact; one after another, reduces all strange constitutions,... | |
 | Bruce Mills - 2005 - 225 pages
...that "geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion" and that "science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts." The true scholar comes to understand that the laws of the material world and those of the individual... | |
 | Christopher J. Windolph - 2007 - 213 pages
...measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact; one after another, reduces all strange constitutions,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact; one after another, reduces all strange constitutions,... | |
| |
