4 ideas
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
20643 | Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell] |
5470 | The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |