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... Galileo compared Galileo , his birth and parentage ( 1564 ) was not illegitimate , as generally • • • • 2 AFF WOND supposed ib . his father was a man of learning ib . exhibits proofs of early talent constructs models of machinery ib ...
... Galileo compared Galileo , his birth and parentage ( 1564 ) was not illegitimate , as generally • • • • 2 AFF WOND supposed ib . his father was a man of learning ib . exhibits proofs of early talent constructs models of machinery ib ...
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... Galileo , his first appearance at Rome in 1611 Page Page 36 bishop , in the 8th century , for asserting the existence of antipodes 63 36-38 • 36-39 · Academia Lincea , account of its origin and regulations Cesi , an account of his life ...
... Galileo , his first appearance at Rome in 1611 Page Page 36 bishop , in the 8th century , for asserting the existence of antipodes 63 36-38 • 36-39 · Academia Lincea , account of its origin and regulations Cesi , an account of his life ...
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... Galileo . It is common , especially in this coun- try , to name Bacon as the founder of the present school of experimental phi- losophy ; we speak of the Baconian or inductive method of reasoning as syno- nimous and convertible terms ...
... Galileo . It is common , especially in this coun- try , to name Bacon as the founder of the present school of experimental phi- losophy ; we speak of the Baconian or inductive method of reasoning as syno- nimous and convertible terms ...
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... Galileo's Birth -- Family - Education- Observation of the Pendulum - Pul- silogies Hydrostatical Balance— Lecturer at Pisa . GALILEO GALILEI was born at Pisa , on the 15th day of February , 1564 , of a noble * Power's Experimental ...
... Galileo's Birth -- Family - Education- Observation of the Pendulum - Pul- silogies Hydrostatical Balance— Lecturer at Pisa . GALILEO GALILEI was born at Pisa , on the 15th day of February , 1564 , of a noble * Power's Experimental ...
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... Galileo mentions one of his sisters , ( without naming her ) as living with him in 1619 at Bellos- guardo . Michel Angelo is probably the same brother of Galileo who is men- tioned by Liceti as having communi- cated from Germany some ...
... Galileo mentions one of his sisters , ( without naming her ) as living with him in 1619 at Bellos- guardo . Michel Angelo is probably the same brother of Galileo who is men- tioned by Liceti as having communi- cated from Germany some ...
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Page 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 8 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Page 13 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 32 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Page 29 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Page 18 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of' labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Page 30 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Page 36 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 62 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...