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"The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Makers."
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Joseph GlanvillFor Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need o — Joseph Glanvill
"For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore."
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Joseph Glanvill
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Joseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to
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"The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden."
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"The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties."
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"The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis."
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"The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity."
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"Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed."
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