 | Ian Hacking - 1984 - 226 páginas
...popularizing and using the commonsense of the time to argue for a more mathematical approach to physics: Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe,...composed. It is written in the language of mathematics [1957, p. 237]. That sort of talk was everywhere. Mention of signs and probability was not quite so... | |
 | Elizabeth L. Eisenstein - 1980 - 814 páginas
...nature' although always open to public inspection, was not really 'given to everyman to know and read.' Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe...which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.67 The language of mathematics certainly differed from Latin or Greek, but not because... | |
 | Elizabeth L. Eisenstein - 1993 - 316 páginas
...nature" although always open to public inspection, was not really "given to everyman to know and read." Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe...composed. It is written in the language of mathematics. The language of mathematics certainly differed from Latin or Greek, but not because it was as easy... | |
 | Frank Durham, Robert D. Purrington - 1985 - 300 páginas
...unless first one learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it: without... | |
 | P.S. Liss, W.G.N. Slinn - 1983 - 582 páginas
...written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics without... | |
 | Toby E. Huff - 94 páginas
...unerringly told the truth (see Drake 1957, p. 196). Moreover, 'this grand book, the universe . . . cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend...are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures' (p. 237f.). In short, the metaphor of nature as a text which had to be deciphered and interpreted was... | |
 | Robert Nadeau - 1984 - 132 páginas
...metaphysical tradition as the creator of the physics he ardently attacks: "Philosophy is written in this great book, the Universe, which stands continually open...unless one first learns to comprehend the language and to read the letters of which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - 1982 - 996 páginas
...was the key to the laws of nature. But he applied it in a far more mathematical manner than Plato: "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe,...continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be 39 understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is... | |
 | David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance, Angela Hildyard - 1985 - 452 páginas
...Galileo himself says, the Book of Nature is written neither in Latin nor in the vernacular; rather "it is written in the language of mathematics, and...characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric f1gures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." (Galilei, 1623/1956).... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 742 páginas
...geometry are as important as rules concerning numbers. "Philosophy [natural philosophy, or science] is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze"; but this book "cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters... | |
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It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. 
