If you were quite mistress of natural philosophy, he would now be hourly acquiring a knowledge of various branches, particularly natural history, botany, and chymistry.
She would presently acquire a critical knowledge of Latin, English, and all branches of natural philosophy.
Why, she instructs two nieces and a nephew (things of twelve or thirteen) in astronomy, natural philosophy, and principles of botany!
Bacon could no more have written the plays than Shakespeare could have prophesied the triumphs of natural philosophy.
They had seen, as he saw, the futility of all attempts at natural philosophy by mere thinking and arguing, without coming into contact with the contradictions or corrections or verifications of experience.
The fifth is to contain what Bacon had accomplished in natural philosophy without the aid of his own method, ex eodem intellectûs usu quem alii in inquirendo et inveniendo adhibere consueverunt.
Such was the origin of mythology: it may be said to be the daughter of natural philosophy, embellished by poetry; only destined to describe nature and its parts.
Further, in his more detailed description of the intercourse between body and mind Descartes had been guilty of direct violations of his laws of natural philosophy.
At the same time he was perfecting his own education--learning French, German, mathematics, and the principles of natural philosophy.
By attending the lectures and reading the books in the library, he acquired some knowledge of chemistry, of the principles of mechanics, and of natural philosophy.
Joseph Whiting was elected Professor of Languages, and Professor Williams was transferred to the Professorship of Mathematics, and, later, of Natural Philosophy.
Professor Williams was a graduate of Vermont (1825) and came to the University from the Pontiac branch to take the Professorship of Natural Philosophy.
It is quite certain that a great mistake has been made,--that British popular geology at the present time is in direct opposition to the principles of Natural Philosophy.
The accusation that we have been running counter to the principles of natural philosophy, therefore, is devoid of foundation.
He made himself master of the globes and orrery, and acquired a knowledge of natural philosophy, a term which then took in a wide field of science.
The first requires to be combatted by reason or morality, the other by natural philosophy.
Rapid and resistless Development of all Branches of Natural Philosophy.
This was the commencement of the movement in Natural Philosophy; it was followed up by the publication of a work on the principles of equilibrium by Stevinus, 1586.
Natural history, improperly called history, is an essential part of natural philosophy.
If they had limited themselves to their empty systems of natural philosophy, their names would be pronounced to-day in mockery only.
RARE Rare in natural philosophy is the opposite of dense.
But let us remark that the Epicureans relied on an entirely erroneous natural philosophy, and that the metaphysical system of all the other philosophers holds good with all the systems of natural philosophy.
This elementary work on Natural Philosophy strikes us as being one of his most useful and happy efforts.
Webster's great Dictionary may be regarded as bearing the same relation to the English language which Newton's "Principia" does to the sublime science of Natural Philosophy.
It is much the most complete and instructive school-book on Natural Philosophy that we have ever seen.
Everett, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Queen’s College, Belfast.
But natural prudence, or the operative part of natural philosophy, is very deficient.
The very necessity man has to labour for his subsistence, brings him into a practical acquaintance with the material world, which induces observation, and conducts towards a natural philosophy.
Nowadays in Germany systems of cosmogony, of natural philosophy in particular, of politics, of economics, etc.
He says "Natural philosophy sank so low that it became barren dregs of poetry and had fallen into the degraded rubbish of the sham philosophy of a Schelling and the like, grubbing in priest-craft and mystifying the public.
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