Aristotle

self-respect

occupation / innovator as

astronomer

photographer

Master of the Mint

mathematician

chemist

scientific organization

Royal Society

physicist

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Göttingen Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

innovator in the field of

mathematics

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

Royal Astronomical Society

Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL

American Philosophical Society

Academy of Sciences of Turin

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

astronomy

photography

chemistry

laid it down as a principle, that the celestial motions were regulated by laws proper to themselves, and bearing no affinity to those which prevail on earth.

Unfortunately... the philosophy of Aristotle laid it down as a principle, that the celestial motions were regulated by laws proper to themselves, and bearing no affinity to those which prevail on earth. By thus drawing a broad and impassable line of separation between celestial and terrestrial mechanics, it placed the former altogether out of the pale of experimental research, while it at the same time impeded the progress of the latter by the assumption of principles respecting natural and unnatural motions, hastily adopted from the most superficial and cursory and remark, undeserving even the name of observation. Astronomy therefore continued for ages a science of mere record, in which theory had no part, except in so far as it attempted to conciliate the inequalities of the celestial motions with that assumed law of uniform circular revolution which was alone considered consistent with the perfection of the heavenly mechanism.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel

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