"Five geometers—Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange and Laplace—shared among them the world of which Newton had reve…"

"Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring…"

"The more man inquires into the laws which regulate the material universe, the more he is convinced that all its varie…"

"Let such a history be once provided and well set forth, and let there be added to it such auxiliary and light-giving …"

"This history I call Primary History, or the Mother History."

"Atomism began life as a philosophical idea that would fail virtually every contemporary test of what should be regard…"

"Scanning the past millennia of human achievement reveals just how much has been achieved during the last three hundre…"

"Maxwell in particular noted that the phenomena of electromagnetism did not fit into the scheme of Newtonian mechanics…"

"Maxwell succeeded in casting all known electromagnetic effects into a mathematical form that has endured to this day.…"

"Reason may be employed in two ways to establish a point: firstly, for the purpose of furnishing sufficient proof of s…"