A History of Western Philosophy

they can use it to pay foreign mercenaries. For themselves, they have no money, and they teach contempt for gold by using it for ...

tradition of many religious movements. I am thinking rather of what is said about war, about religion and religious toleration, ...

An Englishman Italianate Is a devil incarnate It will be observed how many of the villains in Shakespeare are Italians. Iago is ...

of the Reformation were as unwilling to submit to the king as to the Pope. The Anabaptists in Germany were suppressed, but their ...

to abandon the medieval hope of doctrinal unity, and this increased men's freedom to think for themselves, even about fundamenta ...

pre-eminent in the creation of science. Of these, Copernicus belongs to the sixteenth century, but in his own time he had little ...

accepted by Copernicus, whose orthodoxy was sincere, and who protested against the view that his theory contradicted the Bible. ...

not necessarily found together: immense patience in observation, and great boldness in framing hypotheses. The second of these m ...

nevertheless there soon came to be much more liberty of speculation in Protestant than in Catholic countries, because in Protest ...

them to suggest hypotheses to his mind; at last, by good luck, one of these worked. Kepler's great achievement was the discovery ...

related to gods. It seemed obvious that a perfect body must move in a perfect figure. Moreover, since the heavenly bodies move f ...

every body, if let alone, will continue to move in a straight line with uniform velocity; any change, either in the rapidity or ...

equal to that which it covered in the first second of its flight. Second, if it were not moving horizontally, but merely falling ...

enough, there would be the opposite effect to that expected by the opponents of Copernicus. The top of the tower, being further ...

Newton ( 1647-1727) achieved the final and complete triumph for which Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo had prepared the way. Star ...

tion became immensely more exact and more extensive than it had been at any former time. Next, there was important work in other ...

century science, and some of the respects in which modern science differs from that of Newton. The first thing to note is the re ...

concerned with man. In the Newtonian world, the earth was a minor planet of a not specially distinguished star; astronomical dis ...

fellows, not the miserable sinners that they still proclaimed themselves on Sundays. There are some respects in which the concep ...

It is true that the conservation of energy is a law dealing with velocities, not accelerations. But in calculations which use th ...