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** ''Natural Philosophy of Time'' (1980) as quoted by Suk-Jun Kim, "Time felt and places * '''It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present.'''<!--p.22--> ...

...n under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in ...m]], ''Age of Extremes'' (1994), Chap. 18 : Sorcerers and Apprentices: The Natural Sciences ...

...re of mathematics and its applications toward describing and understanding natural phenamena. It foreshadows some points of Whitehead's later work in philosop ...t, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena.'''<!--p. 8--> ...

* I regard the whole of arithmetic as a necessary, or at least natural, consequence of the simplest arithmetic act, that of counting, and counting [[Category:Philosophers from Germany]] ...

...an infinite physical quantity. ...Circular motion was the most perfect and natural movement of all.<!--ch. 1, pp. 12-13--> ...e.org/details/livesandopinions00dioguoft The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]'', ''Democritus'', Vol. IX, 44 Tr. [[w:Charles Duke Yonge|Charles Duke Yon ...

...es. The Sumerians had originated a decimal system. They seem to have had a natural genius for algebra and were certainly able to solve linear, quadratic and c ...eliocentrism|Copernican view]] because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally ...

....The geometry which he had learnt in Egypt was merely practical. ...It was natural to nascent philosophy to draw, by false analogies, and the use of a brief a ...

...ps://misc.icarusfilms.com/pdf/philo05.pdf Films & Videos on Philosophy and Philosophers]'' (Apr 1, 2019) p. 12.</small> ...s.. Support for this is is the independent discovery of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]] by [[Alfred Russel Wallace|Wallis]] and [[Charles Darwin|Darwin ...

* The natural principles in the mines are [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] and sulphur. All ...reof. Sulphur and [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] are the mineral roots, and natural principles, upon which nature herself acts and works in the mines and caver ...

...ns for believing that ultra-precise observation of nature has revealed our natural geometry arrived at with solids and light rays to be slightly non-Euclidean ...r of practically-rigid bodies.<br />Geometry thus completed is evidently a natural science; we may in fact regard it as the most ancient branch of physics. It ...

...home for many practitioners of Pythagoreanism and later for Neopythagorean philosophers. Early-Pythagorean sects espoused to a rigorous life of the intellect and s * [[w:Pre-Socratic philosophy#Milesian school|Ionian philosophers]]... had sought to identify a first principle for all things. [[Thales]] ha ...

...but with a Mathematical Quill; or not be altogether deaf to the Lessons of natural Philosophy, while ignorant of Geometry? Who void of (Geometry shall I say, ...I might defend by Authority, and confirm by the Suffrages of the greatest Philosophers. ...

...w:Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers|Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]]'', "Pythagoras", Sect. 4), and quoted in ''Cosmic Optimism: A Study of th ...w:Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers|Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]]'', "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853) ...

...oncepts of classical physics and our everyday apprehension of reality. For philosophers, it has been a romping ground of epistemological adventure of pessimism abo ...mechanics will be accepted by students from the beginning as a simple and natural way of thinking, because we shall all have grown used to it. By that time, ...

...athematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank.''' <br> ' ...hematician, even though he made cheap compen- diums. Look around among the philosophers of today, among Schelling, Hegel, Nees von Esenbeck, and their like; doesn ...

...comparably more vast than the discovery of the "mathematical principles of natural philosophy." Newton wished to penetrate the divine principles beyond the ve ...chy of sixty gods each of which was associated with one of the first sixty natural numbers. ...In ancient India, we find religious significance assigned to ea ...

...al]], natural-historic method". ...Prof. Hooykaas analyzed the meaning of "natural science" in Antquity and the Middle Ages... characterized by too great a co ...e, publishing it and disseminating it through the loose network of natural philosophers of Europe. ...

'''[[w:Gravity|Gravity]]''' or gravitation is a natural phenomenon by which all things with energy are brought toward (or gravitate ...e body either possesses gravity or levity. '''And if it is heavy, it has a natural tendency to the middle; but if light, it naturally tends upward''': for it ...

...igation which has been presented to naturalists since the invention of the natural system of classification and the commencement of the systematic study of em ...lity, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.''' ...it seems natural not to assume at starting that it can never make any difference whether a b ...

...already been a deep change in the attitude to everything natural and super-natural among thoughtful men. ...ion|liberal arts]].<br />I believe that we need to review the whole of our natural philosophy in the light of scientific knowledge that has arisen in the last ...