Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical, Political and Moral, of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Free Cities of Hamburg and Lubeck, Containing Notices of the Manners and Customs, Commerce ... Arts and Sciences ... and Religion, of Those Countries and Cities, Volum 2J.S. Taylor & Company, 1842 |
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Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volum 2 Robert Baird Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1842 |
Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volum 2 Robert Baird Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1842 |
Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volum 2 Robert Baird Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1842 |
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Side iv - As the two towers could not accommodate the instruments which Tycho required for his observations, he found it necessary to erect, on the hill about sixty paces to the south of Uraniburg, a subterranean observatory, in which he might place his larger instruments, which required to he firmly fixed, and to be protected from the wind and weather.
Side xii - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Side 168 - These are all offences involving moral delinquency greater than the simple breach of a regulation or conventional law of the state. Among the crimes in the rural population, there were 28 cases of murder, 10 of child murder, 4 of poisoning, 13 of bestiality, 9 of robbery with violence; — and this rural population is only 2,735,487 individuals ; and, as appears by the official returns, the criminality...
Side iii - David Brewster thus proceeds : — ' The observatory was surrounded by a rampart, each face of which was three hundred feet long-. About the middle of each face the rampart became a semicircle, the inner diameter of which was ninety feet. The height of the rampart was twenty-two feet, and its thickness at the base twenty. Its four angles corresponded exactly with the four cardinal points, and at the north and south angles were erected turrets, of which one was a printing-house, and the other the...
Side iv - The various buildings which Tycho erected were in a regular style of architecture, and were highly ornamented, not only with external decorations, but with the statues and pictures of the most distinguished astronomers, from Hipparchus and Ptolemy down to Copernicus, and with inscriptions and poems in honour of astronomers.
Side iii - ... of the observatory, and from which four paths led to the above-mentioned angles, with as many doors for entering the garden. ' The principal building was about sixty feet square. The doors were placed on the east and west sides ; and to the north and south fronts were attached two round towers, whose inner diameter was about thirty-two feet, and which formed the observatories, which had windows in their roof that could be opened towards any part of the heavens. The accommodations for the family...
Side 168 - By the same official returns, it appears that in the five years from 1830 to 1834 inclusive, 1 person in every 49 of the inhabitants of the towns, and 1 in every 176 of the rural population, had, on an average, been punished each year for criminal offences. In 1836, the number of persons tried for criminal offences in all the courts of the kingdom was 26, 925, of whom 22,292 were condemned, 3688 acquitted, and 9^5 under trial or committal.
Side 252 - ... up my temporary abode, stands but a few rods from this lake, and is separated from it mainly by the road which passes from Njutanger to Hudviksvall. At this interesting and very pleasant spot I passed a Sabbath, amid the repose which was visible in all parts of the little secluded mountain-valley. At ten o'clock the villagers began to assemble for worship. The church stands in the centre of the settlement. It is a relic of the times when the Roman Catholic religion prevailed in that country....