Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... , to uncover to some extent the unseen things of nature ; and thus to give , not only to professed students , * Induction , page 422 . but to others with the necessary bias , industry , Scientific Use of the Imagination . 5.
... , to uncover to some extent the unseen things of nature ; and thus to give , not only to professed students , * Induction , page 422 . but to others with the necessary bias , industry , Scientific Use of the Imagination . 5.
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... guided and controlled by the known analogies of science . In fact , without this power , our knowledge of nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences . We should still believe in the 6 Scientific Use of the Imagination .
... guided and controlled by the known analogies of science . In fact , without this power , our knowledge of nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences . We should still believe in the 6 Scientific Use of the Imagination .
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... nature to an organic whole . I should like to illustrate by a few simple instances the use that scientific men have already made of this power of imagination , and to indicate afterwards some of the further uses that they are likely to ...
... nature to an organic whole . I should like to illustrate by a few simple instances the use that scientific men have already made of this power of imagination , and to indicate afterwards some of the further uses that they are likely to ...
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... nature , but on all sides agreement and verification ; if , moreover , as in the case of Conical Re- fraction , it has actually forced upon our attention phe- nomena which no eye had previously seen , and which no mind had previously ...
... nature , but on all sides agreement and verification ; if , moreover , as in the case of Conical Re- fraction , it has actually forced upon our attention phe- nomena which no eye had previously seen , and which no mind had previously ...
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... nature and employed in art . Collectively , they give us the impression of whiteness . Pure unsifted solar light is white ; and if all the wave- constituents of such light be reduced in the same propor- tion , the light , though ...
... nature and employed in art . Collectively , they give us the impression of whiteness . Pure unsifted solar light is white ; and if all the wave- constituents of such light be reduced in the same propor- tion , the light , though ...
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