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... Thales , Pythagoras , Plato , and Aristotle , were the most eminent . Pherecydes , Anaximander , Anaximines , and Anaxigorus , were mere copyists ; nor was any thing like a rational system of natural science concocted , till the days of ...
... Thales , Pythagoras , Plato , and Aristotle , were the most eminent . Pherecydes , Anaximander , Anaximines , and Anaxigorus , were mere copyists ; nor was any thing like a rational system of natural science concocted , till the days of ...
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... Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle only can be named ; and it is remarkable , that even they did not invent that part of their philos- ophy of which I am treating , but travelled for it , and collected it from the records of other ...
... Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle only can be named ; and it is remarkable , that even they did not invent that part of their philos- ophy of which I am treating , but travelled for it , and collected it from the records of other ...
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... Thales was of the opinion , " that the first principle of all thing was vdws , or water , " which opinion is confirmed by the testimony of Tully . Thales , however , with all the ancient philosophers used the word water in the sense of ...
... Thales was of the opinion , " that the first principle of all thing was vdws , or water , " which opinion is confirmed by the testimony of Tully . Thales , however , with all the ancient philosophers used the word water in the sense of ...
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... Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle , was true also of Moses , familiar as he doubt- less was in his knowledge of the Egyptian philos- ophy . Nor did he in his cosmogony attempt to account for the how and the wherefore of things that ...
... Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle , was true also of Moses , familiar as he doubt- less was in his knowledge of the Egyptian philos- ophy . Nor did he in his cosmogony attempt to account for the how and the wherefore of things that ...
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... Thales was the first who could predict an eclipse in Greece , not six hundred years before Christ ; and without doubt it was but a rude account he had of the motions ; and it was Hipparchus who made the first catalogue of the fixed ...
... Thales was the first who could predict an eclipse in Greece , not six hundred years before Christ ; and without doubt it was but a rude account he had of the motions ; and it was Hipparchus who made the first catalogue of the fixed ...
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