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Eclosion

"Even though Mendeleev always denied that electrons exist, they later turned out to be vital for ordering the elements in his table."

– Patricia Fara, "Science: A Four Thousand Year History" (2009).

 

"Willis combined the physician's expert anatomical sophistication with the fluent use of an interpretive apparatus that see-sawed between novelty and tradition, Galenism and Gassendist atomism, iatrochemistry and mechanism."

– Noga Arikha, "Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment," Perspectives on Science Vol. 14, Issue 2 (Summer 2006) p.153-188.

 

"The principal object of Algebra, as well as of all the other branches of the Mathematics, is to determine the value of quantities which were before unknown; and this is obtained by considering attentively the conditions given, which are always expressed in known numbers: for which reason Algebra has been defined, The science which teaches how to determine unknown quantities by means of those that are known."

– Leonhard Euler, "Elements of Algebra" (1770) Vol. 1.

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