Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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Side 14
... remarkable as he was surrounded by friends and contemporaries of a different temperament and much less cautious disposition . A disadvantageous contrast is occasionally furnished even by the sagacious Bacon , who could so far deviate ...
... remarkable as he was surrounded by friends and contemporaries of a different temperament and much less cautious disposition . A disadvantageous contrast is occasionally furnished even by the sagacious Bacon , who could so far deviate ...
Side 35
... remarkable , that these very passages , in which the reasoning is so correct , though the facts are too hastily taken for granted , ( the common error of that school , ) are quoted by Benedetti , ex- pressly to shew the ignorance and ...
... remarkable , that these very passages , in which the reasoning is so correct , though the facts are too hastily taken for granted , ( the common error of that school , ) are quoted by Benedetti , ex- pressly to shew the ignorance and ...
Side 48
... remarkable production is decorated with an emblematical figure , representing the earth grasping the globe with their fore feet , are placed included in a triangle ; and in the three corners , three bees , the arms of Pope Urban VIII ...
... remarkable production is decorated with an emblematical figure , representing the earth grasping the globe with their fore feet , are placed included in a triangle ; and in the three corners , three bees , the arms of Pope Urban VIII ...
Side 50
... remarkable configurations would occur , as , for instance , the times at which any one of them would be eclipsed by Jupiter . A mariner who in the middle of the Atlantic should observe the same eclipse , and compare the time of night at ...
... remarkable configurations would occur , as , for instance , the times at which any one of them would be eclipsed by Jupiter . A mariner who in the middle of the Atlantic should observe the same eclipse , and compare the time of night at ...
Side 51
... remarkable for the appearance of three comets , on which almost every astronomer in Europe found something to say and write . Galileo published some of his opinions with respect to them , through the medium of Mario Guiducci . This ...
... remarkable for the appearance of three comets , on which almost every astronomer in Europe found something to say and write . Galileo published some of his opinions with respect to them , through the medium of Mario Guiducci . This ...
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Side 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Side 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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*.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...