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Page 107
... practical consequences of science , Bacon sought to show that even those who were engaged in abstract observations or experiments might ultimately confer great benefits upon the human race - greater than those who sought to improve it ...
... practical consequences of science , Bacon sought to show that even those who were engaged in abstract observations or experiments might ultimately confer great benefits upon the human race - greater than those who sought to improve it ...
Page 110
... practical achievements would make , not only to scientists , to inventors , to engineers , but to the countless human benefi- ciaries of their work . He foresaw finally - far in advance of his age - that science would materially prosper ...
... practical achievements would make , not only to scientists , to inventors , to engineers , but to the countless human benefi- ciaries of their work . He foresaw finally - far in advance of his age - that science would materially prosper ...
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... practical concerns . The most dynamic gift of science to technics is what A. N. Whitehead termed the greatest ... practical needs , as in the Egyptian need for surveying the boundaries that had been effaced in flooded fields ; and some ...
... practical concerns . The most dynamic gift of science to technics is what A. N. Whitehead termed the greatest ... practical needs , as in the Egyptian need for surveying the boundaries that had been effaced in flooded fields ; and some ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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