Eighteenth-century English Literature: Modern Essays in CriticismOxford University Press, 1959 - 351 Seiten |
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... mechanical philosophy , as it was called , laid out a pattern for explaining all natural phenomena on a basis of matter , motion , and mathematics , thus at one blow sweeping aside all the specious theories of traditional philosophies ...
... mechanical philosophy , as it was called , laid out a pattern for explaining all natural phenomena on a basis of matter , motion , and mathematics , thus at one blow sweeping aside all the specious theories of traditional philosophies ...
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... philosophy which they found most useful in explaining experiments had in the eyes of many turned out to be atheistic . The experimentalists could draw , and insist upon , a clear line of distinction between the mechanical philosophy ...
... philosophy which they found most useful in explaining experiments had in the eyes of many turned out to be atheistic . The experimentalists could draw , and insist upon , a clear line of distinction between the mechanical philosophy ...
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... Mechanical Philosophy.'s It was perfectly natural that when Sprat , under the supervision of the Royal Society , wrote his history of the Society , he should mention Descartes only once or twice , and that in no very complimentary way ...
... Mechanical Philosophy.'s It was perfectly natural that when Sprat , under the supervision of the Royal Society , wrote his history of the Society , he should mention Descartes only once or twice , and that in no very complimentary way ...
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THE GLOOM OF THE TORY SATIRISTS | 3 |
THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 42 |
POPE SEEN THROUGH HIS LETTERS | 62 |
Urheberrecht | |
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