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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An experiment.

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  • They were also familiar with scientific induction, using the terms experimentum, experientia, to translate Aristotle's empeiría.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • By the Baconian term experimentum crucis — a phrase he borrowed from Hooke's Micro - graphia (1665) — Newton means an experiment de - signed to decide between two alternative outcomes, in other words an experiment designed (like Hooke's

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • But notwithstanding this frequent confusion of interests, it is easy to attain what natural philosophers, after Lord Bacon, have affected to call the experimentum crucis, or that experiment which points out the right way in any doubt or ambiguity.

    An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

  • But notwithstanding this frequent confusion of interests, it is easy to attain what natural philosophers, after Lord Bacon, have affected to call the experimentum crucis, or that experiment which points out the right way in any doubt or ambiguity.

    An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals David Hume 1743

  • In our specific case, the long term objective of experimentum mundi, the New, already dawns on the crimson horizon of Planet Earth.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009

  • Nearly unnoticed by billions of whitewashed eyes, in sublime magnitude 'experimentum mundi', namely, the cosmic experiment world, Pacha Mama, life, all are taking place here at the edge of the galaxy called the Via Lactea.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009

  • We are the experiment, we are part of the 'experimentum mundi'; it could be victorious, have a different result, that is, it could fail.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009

  • Publications about the sciences intended for general audiences were obvious sources of information, often inspiring the reader to an engagement with experiment, perhaps not always to the degree that Boyle inspired Hoofnail. reference reference Although few books were about color per se, many more included its basic tenets, and Newton's experimentum crucis was often called on to explain color, science, and light, and, by extension, the juncture of science and arts.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • “Faciamus experimentum in anima vili,” retorted Lucien with a smile.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Paracelsi de vita longa, out of some Platonists, will have the air to be as full of them as snow falling in the skies, and that they may be seen, and withal sets down the means how men may see them; Si irreverberatus oculis sole splendente versus caelum continuaverint obtutus, &c., [1134] and saith moreover he tried it, praemissorum feci experimentum, and it was true, that the Platonists said.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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