| David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 pages
...believed mathematics to be the key to the interpretation of nature: Philosophy is written in this great book — I mean the universe — which stands continually...gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first studies the language and the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics,... | |
| Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter - 1986 - 226 pages
...abstraction set the example for modern scientific reasoning. His credo, stated in his own words of 1 623: Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continuously open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the... | |
| Stephen Malvern Omohundro - 1986 - 594 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gate. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters... | |
| Stephen V. Monsma, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship - 1986 - 268 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters... | |
| Charles E. Hummel - 1986 - 300 pages
...For Galileo mathematics was the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. This grand book . . . cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and to read the alphabet in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its... | |
| Andrew C. Papanicolaou, Pete Addison Y. Gunter - 1987 - 424 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters... | |
| Reinhard Bendix - 1989 - 470 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters... | |
| Marcia Sweet Stayer - 1988 - 152 pages
..."is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters... | |
| Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 1989 - 358 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics and its characters... | |
| Milton K. Munitz - 1992 - 228 pages
...is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters... | |
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