Ueber absolute Maasse

Hippokrates Ueber die Krankheiten III

irrelevant. Chemistry and the relations between science, technology, and industry are well surveyed by Crosland and Cardwell respectively. Forbes's essay on mathematical cosmography is not a comprehensive account but the story (albeit interesting) of a few German cartographers. Compared with other recent collections of essays in the history of science, this volume parades no party line: witness...

Ueber Das Verschwinden Der Θ-functionen

Ueber Die Fortpflanzung Ebener Luftwellen Von Endlicher Schwingungsweite

[Aus dem achten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 1860.]

Ueber Die Fläche Vom Kleinsten Inhalt Bei Gegebener Begrenzung

Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality

In conversations between native speakers, words such as ‘same’ and ‘identical’ do not usually cause much difficulty. We take it for granted that others use them with the same sense as we do. If it is unclear whether numerical or qualitative identity is intended, a brief gloss such as ‘one thing not two’ for the former or ‘exactly alike’ for the latter removes the unclarity. In this paper, numer...