Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks,... The Record of the Royal Society of London. 1897 - Page 2by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1897 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Education - 1909 - 190 pages
...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organisation : — " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad. We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Education - 1909 - 190 pages
...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organisation : — " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad. We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1910 - 408 pages
...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : — " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magnetieks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies and their... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Readers - 1910 - 446 pages
...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : — 5 " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries, and such as related thereunto : — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy,0 Navigation,... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1912 - 596 pages
...(then Astronomer Professor there), and, after the lecture ended, repaired, sometimes to Mr. Foster's lodgings, sometimes to some other place not far distant]....Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechan- \ icks, and Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home... | |
| Richard Mills Pearce - Medical education - 1913 - 578 pages
...London, constituting the so-called invisible college, which grew into the Royal Society. He says : Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...consider of philosophical enquiries and such as related thereto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks,... | |
| Education, Higher - 1913 - 408 pages
...attain cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organisation:— " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto:—as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks,... | |
| 1913 - 564 pages
...constituting the so-called invisible college, which grew into the Royal Society. He says: Our business wag (precluding matters of theology and state affairs)...consider of philosophical enquiries and such as related thereto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magoeticks, Chymicks,... | |
| Carson Samuel Duncan - English literature - 1918 - 204 pages
...therefore, practically unbounded. Dr. Wallis, a charter member of the Royal Society, wrote in 1696: — "Our business was (precluding matters of Theology...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries, and such as related thereunto ; as Physick, Astronomy, Geometry, Anatomy, Navigation, Staticks,... | |
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