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* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteent ...e past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilari ...

...articular, but who likes to watch how things grow, will be able to extract from these pages a notion of the whole history of mathematical science down to [ ...ies, and the use of a brief and deceptive vocabulary, enormous conclusions from a very few observed facts: and it is not surprising if Pythagoras, having l ...

...o inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are ...s for beetles". <br> If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness fo ...

...hirlpool_galaxy_black_hole.jpg|right|thumb|I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved, there is no possibility of using bla * The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10^-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10<sup>28</ ...

...ty of so many gross Mistakes, which prevent themselves, as well as others, from finding that [[Satisfaction]], they otherwise would do in their [[Performan ...'[[w:Opticks|[T]he Theory]] I have endeavour'd to explain in the Appendix, from Sir [[Isaac Newton]], may be of very great us'''e to Learners.<!--Preface p ...

...m|Porisms]]'' form the part the loss of which is most to be regretted, for from the references to them it is clear that they contained propositions in the ...in his solutions no numbers whatever except ''rational'' numbers, in [the non-numbers of] which, in addition to [[wiktionary:surd#Noun|surds]] and [[w:Im ...

* '''Madam, I have come from a country where [[people]] are hanged if they [[talk]].''' ...russia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in ''Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860'' (19 ...

...one of the destroyers of that great seate, and '''a purger of the world''' from Antichristianisme, '''who purgeth not his owne countrie? Shall he purge his ...bursted I oute in continuall reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thence forth I determined with myself by the assistance of God's spirit to ...

...ng then to augmented series... and diminished... or altered... constituted from sums or differences of two or more other series. ...[I]t was not too diffic ...rs proposed, are to be [[w:Prime number|Prime Numbers]], and each distinct from the other. For if any of them be [[w:Composite number|Compound Numbers]], o ...

[[File:Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy.jpg |thumb|right|Truth is [[strong]] enough to overcome * [[Art]] is [[magic]] delivered from the lie of being truth. ...