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These are some quotes I've found interesting during my reading of History and / or Philosophy books, I doubt you will likewise, I can but hope. |
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"In his unpublished lectures on optics, however, we learn that Newton first measured the distances between five colours and subsequently added orange and indigo. It would seem that when British schoolchildren learn the seven colours of the rainbow they are paying unwitting homage, not to Newton's experimental method, but to his belief in cosmic harmonies." - Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science, Henry, pg 51. (Newton believed the number 7 had occult significance, for reasons I'm not going to explain, because they're fairly tedious) |
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"There was also a widespread belief that animals could be formed by 'spontaneous generation' from putrefying matter - the chemist Von Hemont gave a recipe for producing mice from old underclothes." - History of the Environmental Sciences, Bowler, pg 78 |
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"We might describe buses as 'transivorous', meaning they have always been means of transport in the past, but we expect them to be carnivorous beasts in the future. In this latter case we are back with the problem of consumer confidence and public transport." - Changing Order, Henry Collins, pg 10. |
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"Indeed contemporary clerical opponents of Newtonian science, and Bristol and its environs were particularly rich in one such group called the Hutchinsonians, believed by 1774 that the new science, which they regarded as a threat to Christianity, had permeated the minds of the landed gentry in deepest Somerset." Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West, Jacob, pg 193. |
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[Note: this picture is intended to represent a concerned clerical opponent of Newtonian science, if you were unsure] |
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| "Abbe Condillac claimed that algebra was the best language because it had the best symbols" - Science and the Enlightenment, Hankins, pg 109. |
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"Theaters, pubs, gambling halls, prostitutes: the moral pitfalls for the medical student driven to the nightlife by work and worry were endless (and Mr Punch considered him a pretty debauched sort in the first place)." - The Politics of Evolution, Desmond, pg. 12. |
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