 | René Descartes - 1927 - 474 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...the spring, they act in that like clocks. All that honey-bees do is of the same nature; and the order that cranes keep in flying, or monkeys drawn up... | |
 | Alistair Cameron Crombie - 1995 - 756 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...clock, which tells better what the hour is than our judgement can inform us. And, doubtless, when swallows come in the spring, they act in that like clocks.... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters, Lisa Portmess - 1999 - 308 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...the spring, they act in that like clocks. All that honey-bees do is of the same nature; and the order that cranes keep in flying, or monkeys drawn up... | |
 | David M. Rosenthal - 2000 - 336 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...the spring, they act in that like clocks. All that honey-bees do is of the same nature; and the order that cranes keep in flying, or monkeys drawn up... | |
 | Mannfred A. Hollinger - 2002 - 446 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...what the hour is than our judgment can inform us." Descartes imagined insects and other creatures as elegant, miniaturized bits of clockwork "which eat... | |
 | René Descartes - 1927 - 466 páginas
...do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a...the spring, they act in that like clocks. All that honey-bees do is of the same nature; and the order that cranes keep in flying, or monkeys drawn up... | |
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I know, indeed, that brutes do many things better than we do, but I am not surprised at it; for that, also, goes to prove that they act by force of nature and by springs, like a clock, which tells better what the hour is than our judgment can inform us. 