History of the Intellectual Development of Europe volume 2
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe volume 2
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It has been truly said that the symbols think for us. Mr. Whewell observes: "No one for sixty years after the publication of the The"Frind- ' Pi incipia, ' and, with Newton's methods, no one comparable* up to the present day, has added any thing of merit. Value to his deductions. We know that he calculated all the principal lunar inequalities ; in many of the cases he has given us his processes, in others only his results. But who has presented in his beautiful geometry or deduced 276 THE EUROP...EAN AGE OF REASON. [CH. VIIL from his simple principles any of the inequalities which he left untouched 9 The ponderous instrument of synthesis, so effective in his hands, has never since been grasped by any one who could use it for such purposes ; and we gaze at it with admiring curiosity, as on some gigantic imple- ment of war which stands idle among the memorials of ancient days, and makes us wonder what manner of man he was who could wield as a weapon what we can hardly lift as a burden. " Such was the physical meaning of Newton's discoveries ; their philosophical meaning was of even greater import of lc * [ importance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It has been truly said that the symbols think for us. Mr. Whewell observes: "No one for sixty years after the publication of the The"Frind- ' Pi incipia, ' and, with Newton's methods, no one comparable* up to the present day, has added any thing of merit. Value to his deductions. We know that he calculated all the principal lunar inequalities ; in many of the cases he has given us his processes, in others only his results. But who has presented in his beautiful geometry or deduced 276 THE EUROP...EAN AGE OF REASON. [CH. VIIL from his simple principles any of the inequalities which he left untouched 9 The ponderous instrument of synthesis, so effective in his hands, has never since been grasped by any one who could use it for such purposes ; and we gaze at it with admiring curiosity, as on some gigantic imple- ment of war which stands idle among the memorials of ancient days, and makes us wonder what manner of man he was who could wield as a weapon what we can hardly lift as a burden. " Such was the physical meaning of Newton's discoveries ; their philosophical meaning was of even greater import of lc * [ importance.
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