Lives of Eminent PersonsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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