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" These formulae, emblematic of Omniscience, condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of the universe. This mighty instrument of human power itself originates in the primitive constitution of the human mind, and rests upon a few fundamental axioms,... "
The Connection of the Physical Sciences - Page 318
by Mary Somerville - 1834 - 356 pages
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The New Englander, Volume 4

1846 - 632 pages
...still most closely related to it, as being the grand key to the knowledge of nature : Its " formulai, emblematic of omniscience, condense, into a few symbols,...breast of man, when he created him after his own image, "t We have now reviewed, most hastily, some of the illustrations which God has given us of his own...
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Sociological Visions

Kai Erikson - 1997 - 324 pages
...of mankind, nature, and the deity: "This mighty instrument of human power [the formulae of science] itself originates in the primitive constitution of...breast of man when He created him after His own image." The moral authority of science, in Somerville's formulation, derives from the inherently transcendent...
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Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind

Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - 2001 - 284 pages
...daily extending its empire, and will ultimately embrace almost every subject in nature in its formulae. These formulae, emblematic of Omniscience, condense...breast of man when He created him after His own image. (Conn 389-390) As in the other instances, tracing the mazes leads back to the Creator and to the powers...
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In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930

Barbara T. Gates - 2002 - 712 pages
...empire, and will ultimately embrace almost every subject in nature in its formulas. These formulas, emblematic of Omniscience, condense into a few symbols...breast of man when He created him after His own image. •"**»' JANE LOUDON From The Young Naturalist; or, The Travels of Agnes Merton and Her Mamma 1840....
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Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England

George Levine - 2010 - 320 pages
...of Omniscience": [The sciences, which are] united still more closely by the common bond of analysis condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of...the breast of man when He created him after His own image.19 So the book ends, with human consciousness, through science, achieving a simulacrum of Omniscience....
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Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England

George Levine - 2002 - 344 pages
...of Omniscience": [The sciences, which are] united still more closely by the common bond of analysis condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of...which have eternally existed in Him who implanted them 1n the breast of man when He created him after His own image. i.' So the book ends, with human consciousness,...
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