coveries

When Alexander opened the tomb of Cyrus, the remaining bones discovered his proportion, whereof urnal fragments afford but a bad conjecture, and have this disadvantage of grave interments, that they leave us ignorant of most personal dis coveries.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

He allows me to have a vast share of good understanding; and so he ought, when 1 have made such dis coveries to his advantage.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

The reporter would be mentally translating the most significant of their dis-coveries into credit points with his service, disparaging them by the process which transmuted the advance'ment of science into monetary terms.

The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

You shall have the honor of bearing news of my dis-coveries home and confronting the surviving critics of the Cygnus's mission with them.

The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

The warrior had not gone empty-handed into the narrow ways, but had taken with him one of the dis - coveries of his own people, a box which made a perma - nent record of what he saw.

Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

The Florentine Renaissance in the fifteenth century inaugurated a Heraclitean era which was joined with the Neo-Platonism of the first centuries; the new spirit kept growing stronger making possible the infinite worlds of Bruno's cosmology and the dis - coveries of Kepler and Galileo.

COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

The dis - coveries of men like Galileo, Kepler, and Newton had apparently opened the way to unlimited advance in the exploration of nature, showing how ranges of phys - ical phenomena, often of the most diverse kinds, could be systematically accommodated and unified within schemes of vast explanatory and predictive power.

CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

Some final consideration must be given to the dis - coveries in the realm of physics concerning Heisen - berg's Principle of Indeterminacy.

CAUSATION JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

The history of the astonishing progress that has been made in that direction finds the same or similar conceptual schemes now opening the way for, now obstructing, particular insights and dis - coveries.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

The two greatest mathematicians of their time, Pascal and Fermat, exchanged their dis - coveries in undisturbed harmony.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968