The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 sider |
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Side 8
... circle of cosmic knowledge . So it was that in the brief space of three or four centuries , and after an incalculable period of blind groping , man was able at last to work out a rational theory of the world , complete in all its ...
... circle of cosmic knowledge . So it was that in the brief space of three or four centuries , and after an incalculable period of blind groping , man was able at last to work out a rational theory of the world , complete in all its ...
Side 10
... circles about him . In no later single work has Humboldt's vast design been realised . Such a work would be a summation , and more , of the physical sciences in their present state ; the task is probably beyond the powers of any single ...
... circles about him . In no later single work has Humboldt's vast design been realised . Such a work would be a summation , and more , of the physical sciences in their present state ; the task is probably beyond the powers of any single ...
Side 27
... circles , one behind the other , some between the moon and sun and some beyond . There came at last great organising minds like Aristarchus and Coppernicus to set these puzzling motions in order , to conceive this earth as a wanderer ...
... circles , one behind the other , some between the moon and sun and some beyond . There came at last great organising minds like Aristarchus and Coppernicus to set these puzzling motions in order , to conceive this earth as a wanderer ...
Side 42
... circle across the ceiling all the time , but its path moves up and down , with the apparent effect of his being most uncomfortably cold when it is down and beastly hot when it is high . Puzzling over this foolish arrangement , he notes ...
... circle across the ceiling all the time , but its path moves up and down , with the apparent effect of his being most uncomfortably cold when it is down and beastly hot when it is high . Puzzling over this foolish arrangement , he notes ...
Side 43
... circle to the highest and back again . It is a stupid number , and it doesn't much matter any way ; it is enough to ... circles the ceiling and makes his nights and days ; not very long to discover that he is on the periphery of a wheel ...
... circle to the highest and back again . It is a stupid number , and it doesn't much matter any way ; it is enough to ... circles the ceiling and makes his nights and days ; not very long to discover that he is on the periphery of a wheel ...
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Alexandria alpha Centauri ancient angle appear Archimedes Arcturus Aristarchus Aristotle astronomer atoms attraction bodies calculated Canopus centre century CHAPTER circle Cleomedes comets computed conceive conception Coppernicus cosmic cosmos curious dark Democritus Descartes diameter discovery distance doubtless earth endeavour Eratosthenes estimate evident existence fact fixed force Galileo globe gravitation Greek Halley heavens Herschel Hipparchus human hundred idea imagine infinite invention Jupiter Kepler knowledge known Laplace larger least less light light-years mass mathematician mathematics matter measure mechanical meteorites method miles million mind minute moon motion nature nebula Newton observed orbit parallax particles perhaps phenomena philosopher physical planetary planets Poseidonius Principia probably problem Ptolemy reached result revolution revolving round satellites Saturn seems sense simply solar system space speed sphere stars stellar Strabo suppose surface telescope theory things thought thousand tion true truth turn universe Uranus vast wonderful WORLD MACHINE
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Side 450 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Side 36 - Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Side 313 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Side 398 - FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail ; A musical but melancholy chime, Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Side 27 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Side 22 - The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look: — Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature, strong and...
Side 450 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Side 40 - GABRIEL Und schnell und unbegreiflich schnelle Dreht sich umher der Erde Pracht; Es wechselt Paradieseshelle Mit tiefer, schauervoller Nacht; Es schäumt das Meer in breiten Flüssen Am tiefen Grund der Felsen auf, Und Fels und Meer wird fortgerissen In ewig schnellem Sphärenlauf.
Side 255 - In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series.
Side 448 - I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.