Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 29
... labour , at the expense of others , from written books , but that the first inventors acquired the most excel- lent knowledge of things natural and divine with study and contemplation of the vast book which nature holds ever open before ...
... labour , at the expense of others , from written books , but that the first inventors acquired the most excel- lent knowledge of things natural and divine with study and contemplation of the vast book which nature holds ever open before ...
Page 60
... labour with many circumlocutions to induce the belief that it is left by you undecided , and in ex- press terms probable : which is equally a very grave error , since an opinion can in no way be probable which has been already declared ...
... labour with many circumlocutions to induce the belief that it is left by you undecided , and in ex- press terms probable : which is equally a very grave error , since an opinion can in no way be probable which has been already declared ...
Page 66
... labour of hundreds , has built up a very noble palace ; and then , because of insecure foundations , sees it ready to fail - unable to bear that those walls be stripped that are adorned with so many beautiful pictures , or to suffer ...
... labour of hundreds , has built up a very noble palace ; and then , because of insecure foundations , sees it ready to fail - unable to bear that those walls be stripped that are adorned with so many beautiful pictures , or to suffer ...
Page 75
... labours may not perish , but for the public good may be brought to that per- fection which he will not be able to give them . He has in his thoughts many things worthy of him , which he cannot be prevailed on to communicate to any but ...
... labours may not perish , but for the public good may be brought to that per- fection which he will not be able to give them . He has in his thoughts many things worthy of him , which he cannot be prevailed on to communicate to any but ...
Page 80
... labours in the same manner and with the same success to vary the idea of space . He begins the next book with declaring , that " those who say there is a vacuum assert the existence of space ; for a vacuum is space , in which there is ...
... labours in the same manner and with the same success to vary the idea of space . He begins the next book with declaring , that " those who say there is a vacuum assert the existence of space ; for a vacuum is space , in which there is ...
Common terms and phrases
admiration æther afterwards ancient appears Aristotle artist astronomical beauty Blake body called Cardinal cause celebrated centre character church Coke considered Copernicus court death discovered discovery distance Duke earth employed endeavoured England English epicycle equal equant favour Florence force Galileo genius Greek Henry honour Italy Kepler king knowledge Koreish labour learned Leibnitz letter Lord Somers Mahomet manner matter means ment method method of fluxions Michael Angelo mind moon motion nature never Newton Niebuhr object observations occasion opinion orbit painting parliament period persons philosopher planets pope present principles printed probably proportion published racter reason remarkable rendered respect Rome says sculpture sent sion Sir Edward Coke society supposed tained theory thing thought tion treatise Tycho Brahe Vasari whilst whole Wolsey Wren writings
Popular passages
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...