The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 sider |
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... 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 essential details . " It may well be , let it be said again , that our present ...
... 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 essential details . " It may well be , let it be said again , that our present ...
Side 15
... four thousand years man is no forwarder in his search for the meaning of things than when he began . Save in its content of positive knowledge , it is not clear that the philosophy of Spencer represents any considerable advance upon ...
... four thousand years man is no forwarder in his search for the meaning of things than when he began . Save in its content of positive knowledge , it is not clear that the philosophy of Spencer represents any considerable advance upon ...
Side 22
... four hundred times as far away ? To the eye their diameters are equal ; looked at between thumb and forefinger , held at arm's length , or through a pair of sights set on a board , the angle they subtend is the same . There is nothing ...
... four hundred times as far away ? To the eye their diameters are equal ; looked at between thumb and forefinger , held at arm's length , or through a pair of sights set on a board , the angle they subtend is the same . There is nothing ...
Side 27
... four hundred asteroids of " the shattered planet " as one , racing round and round ever so like the petites cheveaux of the spas and fairs with which Continental travellers are so familiar . Indeed we might conceive the huge Sirian of ...
... four hundred asteroids of " the shattered planet " as one , racing round and round ever so like the petites cheveaux of the spas and fairs with which Continental travellers are so familiar . Indeed we might conceive the huge Sirian of ...
Side 28
... four hours , to the earth eight minutes , to the nearest star four and a half years . Try to comprehend it who can ! The moon is distant from us by ten circumferences 1 De Republica , Book I. of the earth ; the sun is four hundred times ...
... four hours , to the earth eight minutes , to the nearest star four and a half years . Try to comprehend it who can ! The moon is distant from us by ten circumferences 1 De Republica , Book I. of the earth ; the sun is four hundred times ...
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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.