The old and the modern school of physic / by Dr. S. Eadon, Sheffield.

  • Eadon, Samuel.
Date:
1855
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    THE OLD AND THE MODERN SCHOOL OF PHYSIC. No branch of knowledge has ever thriven on a false foundation. How great soever the genius and industry lavished upon it, and though centuries had been given to it, the result has always been inadequate to the efforts put forth. Not that these results have not been voluminous, learned, and ingenious—for these qualities have been more or less characteristic of every human research ; but truth and error become so inextricably blended that one cannot be distinguished from the other. Take astronomy for an example. What region of imagination has not been laid under contribution to account for Planetary and Stellar phenomena ? System upon system, cycle upon cycle, media, plena, centric upon concentric, have all had their advocates and enthusiasts, till Truth unveiled herself in beautiful sim- plicity, to the minds of Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler, and stood forth in bold relief before the commanding glance of the immortal Newton. Having seized the golden thread, connecting earth and heaven, what has astronomy, the most difficult and exact of the sciences, not achieved ? With a law of nature in one hand, and