Either way, Google is on its way to surpassing the 13.8 million volumes of the British Library, which has been collecting in one form or another for centuries, and, eventually, even the thirty-two milliourin our Library of Congress.
Their members gave public demonstrations of their work, and the secrecy which had characterized scientific pursuit for centuries was eventually abandoned in favor of a new empirical approach.
Although Aristotle's syllogistic logic dominated logic for centuries, it eventually revealed itself inadequate for the representation of mathematical argumentation, and it finally became displaced by the advent of modern quantificational logic, which originated with George Boole's algebraic approach to logic and Gottlob Frege's approach to logic and quantification (1879).
For example, Ptolemaic astronomy served to explain and roughly predict the motions of the planets for centuries, but eventually this model of the solar system was eliminated in favor of the Copernican model.
It stayed there for nearly a quarter-century, eventually hidden behind a protective false wall, until the Whitney acquired it in 1995.
If a society of folks has collectively been doing this for centuries, we will eventually approach a period where, deep within the subconscious area of our souls, we know it's a matter of time until this old system of fooling ourselves and others will end.
But the 18th century eventually caught up with the 20th.
The artemisinins, derived from Artemisia annua, have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries under the name Qinghaosu and eventually incorporated as first-line treatment for P. falciparum worldwide.
They argue that this global innovation flow has existed for centuries, with ideas from one culture and civilisation spreading and eventually influencing others.
For centuries they resisted colonisation but, like their counterparts in North America, were eventually forced into impoverished, bleak reservations.
