Science & Ideas: Selected Readings

aether analysis angles Aristotelian Aristotle astronomy atoms believe bodies Boyle Catholics concepts congruence define definition Descartes discoveries earth electron empiricism ence Encyclopédie ethic Euclidean axiom Euclidean geometry evidence example experimental fact FIGURE force formulated G. N. Clark Galileo Henri Poincaré human hypothesis Ibid ideas imagination important intellectual intuition Jean Buridan knowledge laws light line g logical mathematical mathematician meaning measure ment method Milton mind modern moon motion nature never Newton Newtonian non-Euclidean non-Euclidean geometry Norton Juster object observations operations Paradise Lost perhaps phenomena philosophy physical physicist Pietists possible principles problem properties Protestant Protestantism prove Puritan question rational reason religion religious Robert Boyle Royal Society Rudolph Carnap scientific scientists seems sense experiences seventeenth century situation social space statements straight line telescope theorems theory things thought tion triangle true truth universe validity values velocity words