Amusements in Retirement Or the Influence of Science Literature And the Libe
Amusements in Retirement Or the Influence of Science Literature And the Libe
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The chief men of ancient Greece long devoted their hours to these retired pursuits ; investigating, with all the ardour so essentially requisite for ensur- ing the favour of future ages, the general plan of na- ture, and illustrating their opinions from the pagei of their poets. Thus the mind of Pericles is said to have been raised to a greater elevation by the conversation of Anaxagoras, who taught him the causes o! natural phenomena. The mind of Cicero was rendered so rich by similar con...versa- Of Science. 237 tions and pursuits, that his writings remain, even to the present day, the finest monuments of a cul- tivated mind. Hence his enthusiasm, when, among bushes and brambles, he discovered the tomb of the illustrious Archimedes*: and so enraptured was Archimedes himself, at having discovered the relative weight of metals in Hiero's crown, that he jumped out of the bath, in which he had been bathing, and ran, as if he were frantic, through the whole city of Syracuse. At this juncture, he established the position in hydrostatics, that "every body, heavier than its bulk of water, loses so much of its weight by being suspended in water, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of water equal to its bulk.
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126.
The chief men of ancient Greece long devoted their hours to these retired pursuits ; investigating, with all the ardour so essentially requisite for ensur- ing the favour of future ages, the general plan of na- ture, and illustrating their opinions from the pagei of their poets. Thus the mind of Pericles is said to have been raised to a greater elevation by the conversation of Anaxagoras, who taught him the causes o! natural phenomena. The mind of Cicero was rendered so rich by similar con...versa- Of Science. 237 tions and pursuits, that his writings remain, even to the present day, the finest monuments of a cul- tivated mind. Hence his enthusiasm, when, among bushes and brambles, he discovered the tomb of the illustrious Archimedes*: and so enraptured was Archimedes himself, at having discovered the relative weight of metals in Hiero's crown, that he jumped out of the bath, in which he had been bathing, and ran, as if he were frantic, through the whole city of Syracuse. At this juncture, he established the position in hydrostatics, that "every body, heavier than its bulk of water, loses so much of its weight by being suspended in water, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of water equal to its bulk.
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