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... complete verification of his most daring speculations , yet there was enough , ab- stractedly taken , in the wild freedom of his remarks , to attract a mind like Gali- leo's ; and it is with more satisfaction that we refer the formation ...
... complete verification of his most daring speculations , yet there was enough , ab- stractedly taken , in the wild freedom of his remarks , to attract a mind like Gali- leo's ; and it is with more satisfaction that we refer the formation ...
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... complete the cycle of the seven planets . Mercury Venus . Moon . ' uns Saturn . Mars . Jupiter The other stars were supposed to be fixed in an outer orb , beyond which were two crystalline spheres , ( as they were called , ) and on the ...
... complete the cycle of the seven planets . Mercury Venus . Moon . ' uns Saturn . Mars . Jupiter The other stars were supposed to be fixed in an outer orb , beyond which were two crystalline spheres , ( as they were called , ) and on the ...
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... complete ignorance of his subject . The consequence of this public expo- sure , and of the report of the famous Fra Paolo Sarpi , to whom the matter had been referred , was a formal prohi- bition by the university of Capra's pub ...
... complete ignorance of his subject . The consequence of this public expo- sure , and of the report of the famous Fra Paolo Sarpi , to whom the matter had been referred , was a formal prohi- bition by the university of Capra's pub ...
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... complete description of a telescope , which , however , is professed merely to be an improvement on spectacles , and if the author's intention had been to interpolate an afterwritten account , in order to secure to himself the ...
... complete description of a telescope , which , however , is professed merely to be an improvement on spectacles , and if the author's intention had been to interpolate an afterwritten account , in order to secure to himself the ...
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... complete leisure ; so that I can com- plete my Treatises on Mechanics , on the Constitution of the Universe , and on Natural and Violent Local Motion , of which I have demonstrated geo- metrically many new and admirable phenomena . I ...
... complete leisure ; so that I can com- plete my Treatises on Mechanics , on the Constitution of the Universe , and on Natural and Violent Local Motion , of which I have demonstrated geo- metrically many new and admirable phenomena . I ...
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Page 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 14 - 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 35 - 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 33 - ... 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 23 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Page 11 - 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 39 - 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 22 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out, by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Page 6 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Page 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.