Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy

The immortal Sm isaac Nsw'rou insisted, even in his early years, that it was high time to banish vague conjectures and hypotheses from natural phi losophy, and to bring that science under an entire subjection to experiments and geometry. He frequently called it the experimental philosophy, so as to express significantly the difference between it and the numberless systems which had aris'u merely out of the conceits of inventive brains the one subsisting no longer than the spirit of noveltv lasts; the other never failing whilst the nature of things remains unchanged.

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