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... ideas : the unity of science and the unity of mankind . Science is a mirror of nature ; nature being con- gruent , we must expect science to be . Some constants of nature , for example , the electric charge of an elec- tron or the speed ...
... ideas : the unity of science and the unity of mankind . Science is a mirror of nature ; nature being con- gruent , we must expect science to be . Some constants of nature , for example , the electric charge of an elec- tron or the speed ...
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... ideas suggest the dual- ism already referred to , and may lead to two differ- ent conceptions of the history of science . One may insist on knowledge itself , and write a history which being essentially a history of ideas , is very ...
... ideas suggest the dual- ism already referred to , and may lead to two differ- ent conceptions of the history of science . One may insist on knowledge itself , and write a history which being essentially a history of ideas , is very ...
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... ideas . But he must be also , if secondarily , a historian and philosopher . Of course his very interest in the history of science suggests a certain amount of historical curiosity , it proves the assumption of a historical attitude ...
... ideas . But he must be also , if secondarily , a historian and philosopher . Of course his very interest in the history of science suggests a certain amount of historical curiosity , it proves the assumption of a historical attitude ...
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