History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . 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. MARBLE FEET OR SUPPORTS OF A TABLE FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS RUFUS AT am seated at the side of Jupiter, and. like the gods, I feed uponcelest
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . 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. MARBLE FEET OR SUPPORTS OF A TABLE FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF CORNELIUS RUFUS AT am seated at the side of Jupiter, and. like the gods, I feed uponcelestial ambrosia. Here was the enthusiasm of science. The Poliorcetiais of Apollodorus, the architect of the greatbridge over the Danube and of Trajans Forum, and the immenseworks which were executed throughout the whole Empire, provethat the Romans, without having added anything to the geometryof Archimedes and Euclid, had at least, as intelligent disciples, Astronomie ancienne some observations from which Ptolemy profited, and a certain numberof elementary treatises, but no discovery (Diet, des Antiq. p. 502).1 Museum of Naples. 348 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. perfected the construction of Yet the true scientificspirit was lacking iu this society, and for fifteen centuries more will still he lacking to the hu-man mind. Thus is explainedthe empire which mysticismacquired over mens minds,—the efforts made, that is tosay
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