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... light . He is also attacked by Pardies , Linus , and Huygens Remarks on Newron's hypothesis of an imperceptible etherial fluid , pervading space , and affecting bodies by its undu- lations LIFE OF MAHOMET . LIFE OF WOLSEY . LIFE OF. His ...
... light . He is also attacked by Pardies , Linus , and Huygens Remarks on Newron's hypothesis of an imperceptible etherial fluid , pervading space , and affecting bodies by its undu- lations LIFE OF MAHOMET . LIFE OF WOLSEY . LIFE OF. His ...
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... light in which we view him at pre- sent , though very estimable , he was yet inferior to his contemporary Galileo , perhaps even to Kepler . Bacon pointed out at a distance the road to true phi- losophy : Galileo both pointed it out to ...
... light in which we view him at pre- sent , though very estimable , he was yet inferior to his contemporary Galileo , perhaps even to Kepler . Bacon pointed out at a distance the road to true phi- losophy : Galileo both pointed it out to ...
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... light in which we view him at pre- and thereby enabled his imitators to sent , though very estimable , he was yet surpass himself . inferior to his contemporary Galileo , The biography of men who have deperhaps even to Kepler . " Bacon ...
... light in which we view him at pre- and thereby enabled his imitators to sent , though very estimable , he was yet surpass himself . inferior to his contemporary Galileo , The biography of men who have deperhaps even to Kepler . " Bacon ...
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... light , few lives can be considered more interesting than that of Galileo ; and if we compare the state in which he found , with that in which he left , the study of nature , we shall feel how justly an enthusiastic panegyric pronounced ...
... light , few lives can be considered more interesting than that of Galileo ; and if we compare the state in which he found , with that in which he left , the study of nature , we shall feel how justly an enthusiastic panegyric pronounced ...
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... are now for the most part happily consigned ; but it is essential , in order to set Galileo's character and merits in their true light , to show how low at this time philosophy had fallen . For we shall form a GALILEO . 13.
... are now for the most part happily consigned ; but it is essential , in order to set Galileo's character and merits in their true light , to show how low at this time philosophy had fallen . For we shall form a GALILEO . 13.
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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.
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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.
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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.