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Page 124
... ancients and the moderns the moderns had rested their case pre- cisely on the superiority of modern over ancient science : " The Beautiful Bosom of Nature , " Sprat wrote in 1667 , in his History of the Royal Society , " will be expos'd ...
... ancients and the moderns the moderns had rested their case pre- cisely on the superiority of modern over ancient science : " The Beautiful Bosom of Nature , " Sprat wrote in 1667 , in his History of the Royal Society , " will be expos'd ...
Page 125
... ancient science for much more than entertain- ment and a few ideas : in the natural sciences at least , Voltaire wrote , the quarrel between the ancients and moderns has definitely been settled , in favor of the moderns . This had some ...
... ancient science for much more than entertain- ment and a few ideas : in the natural sciences at least , Voltaire wrote , the quarrel between the ancients and moderns has definitely been settled , in favor of the moderns . This had some ...
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... Ancient Egypt to Bernini ( 1964 ) , which develops with masterly erudition the crucial distinction between ... ancients battled moderns , a combat that has been much examined . The best known and in many respects the best book on the ...
... Ancient Egypt to Bernini ( 1964 ) , which develops with masterly erudition the crucial distinction between ... ancients battled moderns , a combat that has been much examined . The best known and in many respects the best book on the ...
Contents
Progress From Experience to Program | 56 |
The Uses of Nature | 126 |
The Science of Man | 167 |
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