| 1878 - 616 páginas
...the lunar and planetary theories, is reduced to the simple process of turning a handle. Coterminous with space and coeval with time is the kingdom of mathematics ; within this range her dominion is surpreme ; otherwise than according to her order nothing can exist ; in contradiction to her laws nothing... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1879 - 950 páginas
...to their limit, but there she stops, and upon the great region beyond she is impertnrbably silent. Conterminous with space and coeval with time is the...that which has been, that which is, and that which ц to come. Everything material which is the subject of knowledge has number, order, or position ;... | |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - 1992 - 376 páginas
...dwell — -navra ya fj.av rO. 'y1yv1aaKojj.t.va — are bound alike by physical and mathematical law. 'Conterminous with space and coeval with time is the...otherwise than according to her order nothing can exist, and nothing takes place in contradiction to her laws.' So said, some sixty years ago, a certain mathematician;1... | |
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