 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...writings, yet they were every where resisted by the errors and prejudices which had taken a deep hold even of the strongest minds. The philosophy of Descartes...all the movements of the heavenly bodies by a system * In writing to Flamstead, Newton requests from him the long diameters of the orbits of Jupiter and... | |
 | David Brewster - Mathematics - 1833 - 338 pages
...writings, yet they were every where resisted by the errors and prejudices which had taken a deep hold even of the strongest minds. The philosophy of Descartes was predominant throughout Europe. Appealmg to the imagination, and not to the reason of mankind, it was quickly received into popular... | |
 | B. Powell - 1834 - 420 pages
...we remark that it appealed strongly to the imagination, and very little to the reason, of mankind. In explaining all the movements of the heavenly bodies...vortices in a fluid medium diffused through the universe, Des Cartes had seized upon an analogy of the most alluring kind. Those who had seen heavy bodies revolving... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...writings, yet they were every where resisted by the errors and prejudices which had taken a deep hold even of the strongest minds. The philosophy of Descartes...all the movements of the heavenly bodies by a system * In writing to Flamsteacl, Newton requests from him the long diameters of the orbits of Jupiter and... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 504 pages
...writings, yet they were everywhere resisted by the errors and prejudices which had taken a deep hold even of the strongest minds. The philosophy of Descartes...predominant throughout Europe. Appealing to the imagination more than to reason, it was quickly received into popular favour, and the same causes which facilitated... | |
 | Baden Powell - Mathematics - 1834 - 436 pages
...we remark that it appealed strongly to the imagination, and very little to the reason, of mankind. In explaining all the movements of the heavenly bodies...vortices in a fluid medium diffused through the universe, Des Cartes had seized upon an analogy of the most alluring kind. Those who had seen heavy bodies revolving... | |
| |
Appealing to the imagination, and not to the reason of mankind, it was quickly received into popular favour, and the same causes which facilitated its introduction extended its influence, and completed its dominion over the human mind. In explaining all... 