Excerpt from Science and Medieval Thought: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before, the Royal College of Physicians, October 18 The eager and passionate hearts of many peoples. Lincoln and Wells, Amiens and Chartres, Florence and Assisi tell us of the glory of that vision; and bear witness of its flight for with Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey and Newton the Middle Ages themselves became a phantom, and again the Spirit of a new world appeared. Thus in the phases of time the world dies and is born again; fulfilling greater ...
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Excerpt from Science and Medieval Thought: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before, the Royal College of Physicians, October 18 The eager and passionate hearts of many peoples. Lincoln and Wells, Amiens and Chartres, Florence and Assisi tell us of the glory of that vision; and bear witness of its flight for with Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey and Newton the Middle Ages themselves became a phantom, and again the Spirit of a new world appeared. Thus in the phases of time the world dies and is born again; fulfilling greater destinies. But the new are born in the cold bed of the elder worlds, and the young life is chilled, or a lustier offspring turns unnaturally to curse the dead; so in their decrepitude lay the Middle Ages upon modern life; and the Middle Ages were accursed, until certain pious men sought to reanimate their vestments and their formulas, and to set the hands back on the dial of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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