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Side 7
... 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 ...
Side 11
... 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 ...
Side 19
... 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 ...
Side 23
... 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 ...
Side 25
... 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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Lives of Eminent Persons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
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Side 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.