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... conception of inertia , in which straight - line motion alone was accepted as the entirely natural sort of self - maintain- ing motion ; but Copernicus still accepted rather a rotational idea of inertia , in which a steady spinning ...
... conception of inertia , in which straight - line motion alone was accepted as the entirely natural sort of self - maintain- ing motion ; but Copernicus still accepted rather a rotational idea of inertia , in which a steady spinning ...
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... conception of a design ; and , before that even , there comes the bare recognition of possi- bilities . No wonder ... conceptions could possibly explain , in some field of study , the familiar facts of common experience ; what bearing ...
... conception of a design ; and , before that even , there comes the bare recognition of possi- bilities . No wonder ... conceptions could possibly explain , in some field of study , the familiar facts of common experience ; what bearing ...
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... Conception of Geometry A Ancient & Classical TB / 1146 JOHN H. SCHAAR : Escape from Authority : The Perspec- tives ... Conceptions of the Stone Age and their Influence upon European Thought . A Illus . Introduction by Henri Frankfort TB ...
... Conception of Geometry A Ancient & Classical TB / 1146 JOHN H. SCHAAR : Escape from Authority : The Perspec- tives ... Conceptions of the Stone Age and their Influence upon European Thought . A Illus . Introduction by Henri Frankfort TB ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order 1 | 45 |
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