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... paradigm of natural motion— the horse - and - cart being pulled along against resistances at a constant speed - for a very different one . For Aristotle , all continuous terrestrial motion was a ' phenomenon ' , or de- parture from the ...
... paradigm of natural motion— the horse - and - cart being pulled along against resistances at a constant speed - for a very different one . For Aristotle , all continuous terrestrial motion was a ' phenomenon ' , or de- parture from the ...
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... paradigm ' . This paradigm specifies the manner in which , in the natural course of events , bodies may be expected to move . By comparing the motion of any actual body with this standard example , we can dis- cover what , if anything ...
... paradigm ' . This paradigm specifies the manner in which , in the natural course of events , bodies may be expected to move . By comparing the motion of any actual body with this standard example , we can dis- cover what , if anything ...
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... paradigm of material change is still influential ; and the crucial step in eighteenth - century matter - theory was the replace- ment of this developmental paradigm by a different one . During the hundred years following Helmont and ...
... paradigm of material change is still influential ; and the crucial step in eighteenth - century matter - theory was the replace- ment of this developmental paradigm by a different one . During the hundred years following Helmont and ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
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