 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1867 - 512 pages
...that none of the ancients, and few moderns, were acquainted with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all...can give certainty.' (Experimentum solum certificat talibiis?) Such an expression, which might have 1 The very remarkable passage here referred to by Humboldt... | |
 | 1873 - 862 pages
...that none of the ancients, and few moderns, were acquainted with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all...can give certainty.' (Experimentum solum certificat tuUibus). Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen of Bacon, argues in itself a... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1873 - 860 pages
...remarks that none of the ancients, and few modems, were acquainted with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all...these matters experience alone can give certainty.' (Er.perimenlum solnm certificat taltina). Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1873 - 886 pages
...acquainted with • the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describee all the trees, plants, and herbs known in his time,...can give certainty.' (Experimentum solum certificat talibus). Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen of Bacon, argues in itself a... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 698 pages
...that none of the ancients, and few moderns, were acquainted with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all...these matters experience alone can give certainty.' (Etperim'ntum solum certificat tnlibux). Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1881 - 804 pages
...with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all the tree*, plants, and herbs known in his time, he observes,...experience alone can give certainty." (Experimentum solum artificat talibus.) Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen of Bacon, argues in... | |
 | Francis Charles Maria De Rialp - 1894 - 94 pages
...only the existence of this little work, but the authorized labors of a long and successful career. To "All that is here set down is the result of our own experience, .... for in these matters experience alone can give certainty." ALBERTUS MAGNUS. CHAPTER I. RT supposes... | |
 | 1907 - 748 pages
...remarks that none of the ancients and few moderns were acquainted with the properties of mirrors." Albert's great pupil, Roger Bacon, is rightly looked...experience, or has been borrowed from authors whom we know have written what their personal experience has confirmed : for in these matters experience alone can... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1907 - 500 pages
...Roger Bacon was to develop the principles of experimental science can be found in many places in his master's writings. In Albert's tenth book, wherein...these matters experience alone can give certainty" (experirnentum solum certificat talibus). "Such an expression" says his biographer "which might have... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1910 - 760 pages
...refraction, and remark the ancients, and few moderns, were acquainted with the properties of mirrors. In his tenth book, wherein he catalogues and describes all...these matters experience alone can give certainty." (Experimcntum solum certified talibus.) Such an expression, which might have proceeded from the pen... | |
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... all that is here set down is the result of our own experience, or has been borrowed from authors, whom we know to have written what their personal experience has confirmed: for in these matters experience alone can give certainty. 
