Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet, Wolsey, Sir E. Coke, Lord Somers, Caxton, Blake, Adam Smith, Niebuhr, Sir C. Wren, and Michael AngeloR. Baldwin, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... motion of the earth Application of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites to the discovery of the longi- tude . The books of Copernicus and Galileo are still ( in 1831 ) on the forbidden list at Rome • 64 Extracts from Galileo's ...
... motion of the earth Application of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites to the discovery of the longi- tude . The books of Copernicus and Galileo are still ( in 1831 ) on the forbidden list at Rome • 64 Extracts from Galileo's ...
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... motion according to New- ton Kepler's " Epitome " prohibited at Rome and at Florence His theory of comets , that they move in straight lines Kepler , the first German who calculated the tables of logarithms Page 45-48 ib . 48 36 , 37 on ...
... motion according to New- ton Kepler's " Epitome " prohibited at Rome and at Florence His theory of comets , that they move in straight lines Kepler , the first German who calculated the tables of logarithms Page 45-48 ib . 48 36 , 37 on ...
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... motion , shifted a weight to differ- ent distances from the point of suspen- sion , and that the period of vibration Comment . in Avicennam . Venetiis , 1625 , was still more accurately adjusted by a smaller weight connected. GALILEO . 5.
... motion , shifted a weight to differ- ent distances from the point of suspen- sion , and that the period of vibration Comment . in Avicennam . Venetiis , 1625 , was still more accurately adjusted by a smaller weight connected. GALILEO . 5.
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... motion , in the Grand Duke's private library at Florence , bearing the date of 1590 , in which are many of the theorems which he afterwards developed in his Dialogues on Motion . These were not published till fifty years afterwards ...
... motion , in the Grand Duke's private library at Florence , bearing the date of 1590 , in which are many of the theorems which he afterwards developed in his Dialogues on Motion . These were not published till fifty years afterwards ...
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... motions they may have . " He ridiculed the Aristotelians in no very measured terms- " They harden them- selves , and ... motion . Gali- leo ventured to appeal from the au- thority of Aristotle to that of his own senses , and maintained ...
... motions they may have . " He ridiculed the Aristotelians in no very measured terms- " They harden them- selves , and ... motion . Gali- leo ventured to appeal from the au- thority of Aristotle to that of his own senses , and maintained ...
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Página 10 - 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.
Página 34 - 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.
Página 39 - 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*.
Página 32 - ... 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.
Página 22 - 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
Página 20 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney 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.
Página 38 - 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.
Página 23 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do, if they were resolved ; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water: and though he had been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage, and bold and resolute achievements.
Página 5 - 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.
Página 26 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not. And then at last another said, that he would have "eyren...