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... modern science are as nothing compared with those which will obtain a hundred or a thousand years hence when our modern science will be ancient . As science grows much faster than anything else , its relative importance in life must ...
... modern science are as nothing compared with those which will obtain a hundred or a thousand years hence when our modern science will be ancient . As science grows much faster than anything else , its relative importance in life must ...
Page 64
... science . Now from either point of view , the history of ancient and mediæval 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 ...
... science . Now from either point of view , the history of ancient and mediæval 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 ...
Page 75
... science were wholly orien- tal , and however deep the Greek genius it is not cer- tain that it could have built anything ... science on one hand and to mediæval science on the other ) the beginning of modern science , another development ...
... science were wholly orien- tal , and however deep the Greek genius it is not cer- tain that it could have built anything ... science on one hand and to mediæval science on the other ) the beginning of modern science , another development ...
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