"John Philoponus (c. 490-570) of Alexandria... refuted Aristotle's theory that the velocities of falling bodies in a g…"

"Newton's proof of the law of refraction is based on an erroneous notion that light travels faster in glass than in ai…"

"Although many historians of the new millennium now take issue with the notion of a Scientific Revolution, it is gener…"

"The atomic theory was not generally accepted in the time of Democritus, largely because of its deterministic characte…"

"Empedocles tried to address the problem of change by saying that there is not one fundamental arche but four—earth, w…"

"Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (0. 500—428 BC) postulated another element called the aether, which was in constant rotation…"

"The dominant concept in Aristotle's philosophy of nature is his notion of causation. ...The final cause states that e…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"