 | William Whewell - 1837 - 556 pàgines
...this difference in his lively manner. " A Frenchman who arrives in London, finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full, he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtile matter, at London we see nothing of the... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 pàgines
...which he made to England in 1727, wrote : " A Frenchman who arrives in London finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full ; he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtle matter; at London we see nothing of the... | |
 | 1874 - 802 pàgines
...chromosphere were moved but not the dark lines of the solar atmosphere. When Voltaire visited England in 1727 he saw at the universities the effect of Newton's...has been resuscitated, though for other reasons than those which satisfied the Aristotelians. It is the mathematicians and not the metaphysicians who are... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 pàgines
...which he made to England in 1727, wrote: "A Frenchman who arrives in London finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full ; he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtle matter ; at London we see nothing of the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 406 pàgines
...chromosphere were moved but not the dark lines of the solar atmosphere. When Voltaire visited England in 1727 he saw at the universities the effect of Newton's...has been resuscitated, though for other reasons than those which satisfied the Aristotelians. It is the mathematicians and not the metaphysicians who are... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 392 pàgines
...chromosphere were moved but not the dark lines of the solar atmosphere. When Voltaire visited England in 1727 he saw at the universities the effect of Newton's...has been resuscitated, though for other reasons than those which satisfied the Aristotelians. It is the mathematicians and not the metaphysicians who are... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 pàgines
...of the solar atmosphere. When Voltaire visited England in 1727 he saw at the universities the eflect of Newton's revolutionary ideas in astronomy. The...has been resuscitated, though for other reasons than those which satisfied the Aristotelians. It is the mathematicians and not the metaphysicians who are... | |
 | Heinrich Hertz - 1893 - 324 pàgines
...which he made to England in 1727, wrote: "A Frenchman who arrives in London finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full ; he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtile matter ; at London we see nothing of... | |
 | Heinrich Hertz - 1893 - 308 pàgines
...which he made to England in 1727, wrote: "A Frenchman who arrives in London finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full ; he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtile matter ; at London we see nothing of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 686 pàgines
...which he made to England in 1727, wrote: "A Frenchman who arrives in London finds a great alteration in philosophy, as in other things. He left the world full ; he finds it empty. At Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtle matter ; at London we see nothing of the... | |
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The same comparison might be made now, not so much between nationalities as between successive stages of scientific development. At the beginning of this century the universe was as empty as an exhausted receiver: now it has filled up again. Nature's... 
