Sentence examples for physical accounts from inspiring English sources

At this stage, Greek astronomers were more interested in providing plausible physical accounts of the universe and in proving geometrical theorems than in providing numerically accurate descriptions of planetary motion.

The commonsense picture may have been made a bit too sophisticated by exposure to some physical accounts of sounds.

Such arguments and objections aside, Gassendi focuses his greatest efforts to deny matter's infinite divisibility on the relevance of mathematical and geometrical considerations to physical accounts of matter's ultimate or near-ultimate particles.

The chemical and physical accounts are not of two different entities; rather, they describe and explain the same entity from two distinct points of view, and in this sense the two accounts are "parallel".

Despite the tremendous progress made in the last four decades, we still lack a complete understanding of the radiation belts in terms of their configurations, dynamics, and detailed physical accounts of their sources and sinks.

Using this physical understanding of electromagnetic motion, Ampère developed a physical account of electromagnetic phenomena that was both empirically demonstrable and mathematically predictive.

Philosophy that apes science and aims to produce a purely physical account of the world misses out the irreducible fact that in human accounts of reality things so often are not only what they are.

"Family Happiness," though, really works because of Ms. Kutepova, who gives such a vivid physical account of Masha's transformations from country girl to city wife to settled mother.

This latest adaptation (via Neal Bell's stage play) of Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin is notable largely for the anguished, nuanced performance of Jessica Lange as tortured – and torturing – mother Madame Raquin, an impressively physical account of seething rage and maddening horror.

In the third part of AN, chapters 22 40, Kepler deals with the path of the Earth and intends to offer a physical account of the Copernican theory.

Early Stoic thought about the law is partly rooted in the theory of appropriate action, and partly in a physical account of how reason Zeus pervades the world.