| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 ページ
...divers eminent divines, as to matters theological, I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy,...Philosophy, or Experimental Philosophy. We did by agreements, divers of us, meet weekly in London on a certain day, to treat and discourse of such affairs... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 ページ
...when a little group of students were to be seen in London, men " inquisitive," says one of them, " into natural philosophy and other parts of human learning,...particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy, . . . which from the times of Galileo at Florence, and Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) in England,... | |
| John Milton - 1905 - 224 ページ
...referred to here. The Society had its germ in some meetings of scientific men held about this time. " We did by agreement, divers of us, meet weekly in...certain day to treat and discourse of such affairs as Physics, Anatomy, Geometry. Astronomy, Navigation, Statics, Magnetics, Chymics, Mechanics, and natural... | |
| Thomas Banks Strong - 1906 - 270 ページ
...set forth by its original members, was as follows : The Society was to be a collection of ' divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy...called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy, which, from the times of Galileo at Florence and Sir Francis Bacon in England, hath been much cultivated... | |
| Thomas Banks Strong - 1906 - 282 ページ
...set forth by its original members, was as follows : The Society was to be a collection of ' divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy...called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy, which, from the times of Galileo at Florence and Sir Francis Bacon in England, hath been much cultivated... | |
| 1907 - 960 ページ
...that as early as the year 1645 weekly meetings were held of " divers worthy persons, inquisi- j tive into natural philosophy, and other parts of human...learning, and particularly of what hath been called the Neio Philosophy or Experimental I'hUtmrphy" and ! there can be little doubt that this gathering of... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 454 ページ
...worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy and other parts of human learning did by agreements meet weekly in London on a certain day to treat and discourse of such affairs." In its early days the Society was known as the " Invisible College," and before 1660 It seems to have... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 ページ
...characterised her early history during the lifetime of Newton.2 Let us look at the subject from a ophy, . . . and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy or Experimental Philosophy." It formed a branch at Oxford in 1649, and received a royal charter in 1662, four years before the "... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 456 ページ
...and two remarkable eccentrics, Robert Boyle and Sir Kenelm Digby. A little later on, " these divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy and other parts of human learning did by agreements meet weekly in London on a certain day to treat and discourse of such affairs." 1n... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1912 - 1130 ページ
...SIR ISAAC NEWTONHUMPHRY DAVY THOMAS H. HUXLEY LORD KELVIN tunity of becoming acquainted with divers worthy persons inquisitive into natural philosophy and other parts of human learning. The "divers worthy persons" included John Wilkins, DD, Theodore Haak, Dr. Francis Glisson, Dr. Jonathan... | |
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