In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by th...
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking...
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Water is the driving force of all nature.
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from t...
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I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
