Ancients and Moderns by Richard Foster Jones

Author:Richard Foster Jones [Jones, Richard Foster]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, General, History, Great Britain, History and Criticism, Europe, Early modern; 1500-1700, English Literature, 17th Century, English literature - Early modern; 1500-1700 - History and criticism, Great Britain - Intellectual life - 17th century, Bacon; Francis, Science - Great Britain - History - 17th Century, Ancients and Moderns; Quarrel Of
ISBN: 9780486244143
Google: tN5P0c_EnPoC
Amazon: 0486244148
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1975-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

He passes naturally from the inferiority of ancient science to the hindrances to modern learning associated with dependence upon antiquity, which Bacon had noted many years before. The first was the pronouncing as impossible any solution that goes beyond the common store of learning, whereby men not only stifle their own further enquiries but frighten all succeeding ages from attempting to solve the difficulties. The quadrature of the circle in geometry, longitudes and the Terra Incognita in geography, the cure of cancer in medicine, the heart's motion in

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