The Britannica Guide to the Ideas that Made the Modern World: The People, Philosophy, and History of the EnlightenmentRobinson, 2008 - 369 Seiten A primer on the philosophers, scientists and theorists of the Enlightenment, including Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire and Spinoza, this is one in a series of Britannica Guides to some of the main issues of our times. |
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... motion preserve that motion when another motion is added . Hence , Galileo concluded , the pla- nets , once set in circular motion , continue to move in circles . forever . Therefore , Copernican orbits exist . Galileo never ...
... motion preserve that motion when another motion is added . Hence , Galileo concluded , the pla- nets , once set in circular motion , continue to move in circles . forever . Therefore , Copernican orbits exist . Galileo never ...
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... motion that is imparted and conserved by God . Bodies swirl like leaves in a whirlwind in vortices as great as that in which the planets sweep around the Sun and as small as that of tiny spinning globes of light . All bodily joinings ...
... motion that is imparted and conserved by God . Bodies swirl like leaves in a whirlwind in vortices as great as that in which the planets sweep around the Sun and as small as that of tiny spinning globes of light . All bodily joinings ...
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... motion , Newton completed the exact quantitative mechanics that has been the paradigm of natural science ever since . The mechanics of the Principia rested on Newton's three laws of motion : ( 1 ) that a body remains in its state of ...
... motion , Newton completed the exact quantitative mechanics that has been the paradigm of natural science ever since . The mechanics of the Principia rested on Newton's three laws of motion : ( 1 ) that a body remains in its state of ...
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A History of the Enlightenment | 1 |
The Scientific Revolution | 38 |
Man and Evolution | 79 |
Urheberrecht | |
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