Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks,... History of natural philosophy from the earliest periods to the present day - 255. oldalszerző: B. Powell - 1834Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| William Henry Welch - 1920 - 664 oldal
...London, constituting the so-called invisible college, which grew into the Royal Society. He says: " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquires and such as related thereto — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks,... | |
| William Henry Welch - 1920 - 660 oldal
...London, constituting the so-called invisible college, which grew into the Royal Society. He says : " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquires and such as related thereto — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks,... | |
| Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 oldal
...at a convenient place in Cheapside, and sometimes at Gresham College, or some place near adjoyning. Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and...consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks,... | |
| Laurence Alden Crosby, Frank Aydelotte, Alan Chester Valentine - 1927 - 350 oldal
...(Savilian Professor of Geometry, 1649-1703), shows the presence among them of the real university spirit: "Our business was (precluding matters of theology...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries, and such as related thereunto: as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks,... | |
| Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - 330 oldal
...specialized interests. Returning from these biographical considerations to Wallis' letter,11 we read: Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider Philosophical Enquiries and such as related thereunto; as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 432 oldal
...agreement, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day, to treat and discourse of such matters. Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries, and such as related thereunto, as physic, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, statics,... | |
| 1927 - 444 oldal
...be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : "Our busines was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs)...consider of philosophical enquiries and such as related thereunto, as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks,... | |
| John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - 450 oldal
...separation thesis. Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645, the mathematician John Wallis could say: Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and...consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto; as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 2006 - 289 oldal
...attain cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization: "Our business was (precluding matters of theology...consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto — as Physics, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Statics, Magnetics, Chymies, Mechanics,... | |
| Baden Powell - 1834 - 436 oldal
...pneumatics, Boyle's researches were more especially devoted to chemistry, to enquiries respecting light and colours, and to the properties of solar as compared...then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves in the veins, the lymphatic vessels ; the nature of comets and new stars, the satellites of... | |
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