 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 páginas
...dieser Aufgabe sehr bewußt, als er in seinem 1734 erschienenen Essay on Man diese Zeilen schrieb: "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton äs we show an ape. Could he, whose rules... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 páginas
...dieser Aufgabe sehr bewußt, als er in seinem 1734 erschienenen Essay on Man diese Zeilen schrieb: "Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton äs we show an ape. Could he, whose rules... | |
 | Martin L. Davies - 1995 - 374 páginas
...develops an idea that Pope first stated much more concisely in his Essay on Man (173 3-34, 1 744): Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an Ape and which Kant in 1755... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1996 - 256 páginas
...translator): "Newton était pour eux ce qu'un singe est pour nous. " Pope's verses run as follows: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man...unfold all Nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an early shape, And shew'da NEWTON as we shew an Ape.] 64 "The gods have denied them gold and silver,... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 páginas
...his most ref1ned speculations," approximate their wisdom. Newton is such a man; as Pope said of him, Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in a human shape, And shew'da Newton, as we shew an ape. 42 Clearly Franklin is neither defending nor... | |
 | Martin Schonfeld - 2000 - 376 páginas
...Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (wr. 1730-32, pubi. 1733-34) that inspired him to make this comparison: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man...an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an Ape.M Kant's use of "Newton" as a symbol of intellectual superiority and of "Greenlander" and "Hottentot"... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2004 - 260 páginas
...very far down the scale of progressive being. To quote the poet Alexander Pope, would we not find: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man...earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an Ape. (Essay on Man, Epistle II, 31-34) Is this really compatible with our relationship with the Christian... | |
 | William Whewell - 2001 - 534 páginas
...if he were] an ape" (Kant [1755] 1981, 190). Kant was here echoing the English poet Alexander Pope: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man...earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an Ape. (Essay on Man, Epistle II, 11. 31-34) Focusing now on Britain, the nineteenth-century scene was set... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 1997 - 380 páginas
..."Epistle II," in which Newton figures as the ape of angels, above most men but still of limited knowledge: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And showed a Newton as we show an Ape.6 Darwin showed that... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 956 páginas
...another famous line in his philosophical poem An Essay on Man (1733), where he extended the analogy: Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal Man...earthly shape, And shew'da NEWTON as we shew an Ape (2. 31-34). A century later Charles Lamb (1775-1834), not the most celebrated commentator on the past... | |
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Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape. 
