Of the Advancement of Learning - Couverture rigide

Kitchin, G W 1827-1912

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1340199920 ISBN 13 : 9781340199920

Editeur : Sagwan Press, 2015

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Advancement of Learning. This writing, says he, seemeth to me, si nunquam fallit imago, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while) they are tuning their instruments; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter after wards: so have I been content to tune the instruments of theM uses, that they may play that have better hands. 1W herein he errs in two opposite ways: for, on the one side, the book is nobler than the senseless jargon to which he likens it; while, on the other he musicians that have taken up the work have scarcely succeeded in playing harmoniously together. He seems not to be aware of the intrinsic worth of the thoughts expressed in every page, while he also seems to have imagined that aM illennium of Learning was about to begin, to which this book should be, as it were, the herald trumpet. Under so almost divine a sovereign asK ing James I. learning will surely be fostered and advanced. Controversies in religion, he thinks, are all but worn out (and this on the eve of the great Puritan struggles and successes !), and we shall have leisure to leave questions of faith for the discovery of theL aws of Nature. And yet, with all this, he does not discern the value of mathematics. that branch of learning which was then making great advance, and was destined to work wronders. He scarcely cared to have an opinion on the Copernican Theory olA stronomy. He never mentions his famous countryman Gilbert without a sneer, or at least a disparaging remark; though he was engaged on those discoveries in magnetism which have tended to enlarge in many ways the empire of man over Nature. He bv no means emancipates himself thoroughly from the thraldom of the old scholastic systems.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sagwan Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1340199920
• ISBN 13: 9781340199920
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260