History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . nowledge of physi-ology makes him the precursor,almost without intermediaries,of the physiologists of our us add, to the honor ofthis great mind, that the historians of philosophy give him aconspicuous place among the philosophers of that time. As anastronomer Ptolemy is not equal to Hipparchus;6 but if he had 1 vii. 32, ad finem. 2 Epist. 102 : . . Aliquando naturae tibi arcana retegentur. 3 He used to say that it is necessary Kpiveiv 177 irtlpa to. £k Xdyou SiSaxdevra (De Medico 11?philosopl
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . nowledge of physi-ology makes him the precursor,almost without intermediaries,of the physiologists of our us add, to the honor ofthis great mind, that the historians of philosophy give him aconspicuous place among the philosophers of that time. As anastronomer Ptolemy is not equal to Hipparchus;6 but if he had 1 vii. 32, ad finem. 2 Epist. 102 : . . Aliquando naturae tibi arcana retegentur. 3 He used to say that it is necessary Kpiveiv 177 irtlpa to. £k Xdyou SiSaxdevra (De Medico 11?philosoplio, edit. Kiihn. i. 58). In respect to the dissection of apes, see De Anal, 5, vol. ii. p. 385, Kiihn. Daremberg says that the influence of Galen endured till theseventeenth century, even to the middle of the eighteenth (Gaticn considere commephilosophe,p. 1, and Exposition des connaissances de Galien sur Ianatomie, la physiologie et la pathologie dusysteme nerveux). 4 Bust in the Vatican. 6 For the first two centuries of the Empire, M. Henri Martin cites in his history of. OCEAN IDEAS. J47 not written his Syntaxis, it is probable, Delambre asserts, thatwe should have bad neither Kepler nor, consequently, Newton. Iknow that I am mortal, a Greek epigram represents him as say-ing, and that my career cannot be long; but when in spirit I followthe pathway of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, I
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