History of the Inductive Sciences From the Earliest to the Present Time Volum
History of the Inductive Sciences From the Earliest to the Present Time Volum
William Whewell
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The "Astro- nomica" of Manilius, the "Poeticon Astronomicon" of Hyginus, both belonging to the time of Au- gustus, are, like the work of Aratus, poems which combine mythological ornament with elementary astronomical exposition ; but have no value in the 26 A. A. I. 74. 26 Two copies of this translation, illustrated by drawings of different ages, one set Roman, and the other Saxon, according to Mr. Ottley, are described in the Archceologta, vol. Xviii. 27 Mont. I. 221. SEQUEL TO THE EPOCH OF HIP...PARCHUS. 223 history of science. We may pass nearly the same judgment upon the explanations and declamations of Cicero, Seneca, and Pliny, for they do not apprize us of any additions to astronomical knowledge; and they do not always indicate a very clear ap- prehension of the doctrines which the writers adopt. Perhaps the most remarkable feature in the two last-named writers, is the declamatory expres- sion of their admiration for the discoverers of physical knowledge ; and in one of them, Seneca, the persuasion of a boundless progress in science to which man was destined.
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