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"saltus" on the part of Dame Nature in her variations.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

"saltus" on the part of Dame Nature in her variations.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

(Stuart) will lose his head, Constantinople is going to fall into the hands of the turks, ... and yes, Varus and his 3 legions will be crushed in the battle in the "saltus teutoburgiensis".

REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove 2009

Certainly he held this to be the case in geometry and for natural processes, where it appears as the principle Natura non facit saltus.

Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

Signa hujus morbi sunt plurimus saltus, sonitus aurium, capitis gravedo, lingua titubat, oculi excavantur, &c. 2464.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Those who imported Non saltus into the description of language-change disregarded such considerations, it seems, and had only a rather loose analogy in mind.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

Darwin emphasized the Non saltus maxim even to the point where Huxley thought he overworked it.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

The supposition was expressed by using the slogan that was always on Darwin's lips, Natura non facit saltus (“Nature does not make leaps”).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

To put the point more bluntly, Darwin naively took man as the measure in deciding whether a change was big enough to count as a leap (saltus) or not.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

Taken as a maxim of method, Non saltus is perhaps compatible with uniformitarianism but surely not es - sential to it.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968