 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? so true it is, that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated."10? This could not be said of "the arts" because the standards of achievement in the sciences... | |
 | John Dryden - 312 Seiten
...anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous and doting ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than science,...is, had greater honours decreed to the professors of it, and consequently the rivalship was more high between them. They had judges ordained to decide... | |
 | Alistair Cameron Crombie - 1990 - 508 Seiten
...been revealed to us? ... errors ... detected, ... useful experiments in philosophy ... made ... so true it is that nothing spreads more fast than science, when rightly and generally cultivated" 24. They offered a cumulative confirmation of the growing Western sense of rational purpose and of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 Seiten
...Anatomy, Astronomy, dis12 cover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotk to us ? so true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated. That has a familiar ring to us, but these are the words of Dryden. Much was hoped from the intellectual... | |
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... almost a new nature has been revealed to us ? that more errors of the school have been detected, more useful experiments in philosophy have been made, more noble secrets in optics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, discovered, than in all those credulous... 
