Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... remained , till very lately , almost unknown to the ma- thematical world . This supposition is rendered more probable from the fact , that Mazenta , the preserver of Leonardo's manuscripts , was , at the very time of Antibarbarus ...
... remained , till very lately , almost unknown to the ma- thematical world . This supposition is rendered more probable from the fact , that Mazenta , the preserver of Leonardo's manuscripts , was , at the very time of Antibarbarus ...
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... remained in the bulb , so that the scale would be the reverse of that of the thermometer now in use , for the water would stand at the highest level in the coldest weather . It was , in truth , a barometer also , in consequence of the ...
... remained in the bulb , so that the scale would be the reverse of that of the thermometer now in use , for the water would stand at the highest level in the coldest weather . It was , in truth , a barometer also , in consequence of the ...
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... remained entirely blind to his vast supe- riority over his contemporaries . Many of the treatises which Galileo here mentions , as well as another on dialling , have been irrecoverably lost , through the superstitious weakness of some ...
... remained entirely blind to his vast supe- riority over his contemporaries . Many of the treatises which Galileo here mentions , as well as another on dialling , have been irrecoverably lost , through the superstitious weakness of some ...
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... remained speculative and barren . In 1609 , Galileo , then being on a visit to a friend at Venice , heard a rumour of the recent invention , by a Dutch spectacle - maker , of an instrument which was said to represent distant objects ...
... remained speculative and barren . In 1609 , Galileo , then being on a visit to a friend at Venice , heard a rumour of the recent invention , by a Dutch spectacle - maker , of an instrument which was said to represent distant objects ...
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... remained a long time imperfect in his hands twelve years later , in 1624 , he wrote to P. Federigo Cesi , that he had delayed to send the microscope , the use of which he there describes , because he had only just brought it to perfec ...
... remained a long time imperfect in his hands twelve years later , in 1624 , he wrote to P. Federigo Cesi , that he had delayed to send the microscope , the use of which he there describes , because he had only just brought it to perfec ...
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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...