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... point of view of science mankind might be compared to a single man , to a single giant whose knowledge and experience are steadily in- creasing . we But then is it not clear that if we wish to tell the history of mankind — the history ...
... point of view of science mankind might be compared to a single man , to a single giant whose knowledge and experience are steadily in- creasing . we But then is it not clear that if we wish to tell the history of mankind — the history ...
Page 64
... point of view , the history of ancient and medieval science is at least as useful as that of modern science . He who knows only one of these histories does not really know the history of science , nor does he know the history of ...
... point of view , the history of ancient and medieval science is at least as useful as that of modern science . He who knows only one of these histories does not really know the history of science , nor does he know the history of ...
Page 100
... point of view which turned out to be the fundamen- tal point of view of modern science . Though their great physicians followed instinctively experimental methods , these methods were never properly appre- ciated by their philosophers ...
... point of view which turned out to be the fundamen- tal point of view of modern science . Though their great physicians followed instinctively experimental methods , these methods were never properly appre- ciated by their philosophers ...
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