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... speaking of the other . Accordingly , in the Descriptio Globi Intellectualis , which we know to have been written about the year 1612 , the passage which I have just quoted appears in a new form . " Id enim [ sc . admirandas in cœlo ...
... speaking of the other . Accordingly , in the Descriptio Globi Intellectualis , which we know to have been written about the year 1612 , the passage which I have just quoted appears in a new form . " Id enim [ sc . admirandas in cœlo ...
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... speak , a natural tendency to assume a merely physical character , the idea of a parallel between Democritus and Pythagoras may , it is not improbable , have occurred to him independently of this or any similar passage . 2 See Lucretius ...
... speak , a natural tendency to assume a merely physical character , the idea of a parallel between Democritus and Pythagoras may , it is not improbable , have occurred to him independently of this or any similar passage . 2 See Lucretius ...
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... speaking of the coincidence as to the time of high water between the Dutch and Portuguese coasts ) " sia Selandiâ quis ad caput Angliæ Dobla [ Dover ? ] na- viget , mare plenum erit a medinoctio tertiâ quidem horâ , sed eodem itinere ...
... speaking of the coincidence as to the time of high water between the Dutch and Portuguese coasts ) " sia Selandiâ quis ad caput Angliæ Dobla [ Dover ? ] na- viget , mare plenum erit a medinoctio tertiâ quidem horâ , sed eodem itinere ...
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... speaking generally , the interval between high water and low is six hours " è stata un ' ingannevole opinione la quale ha poi fatto favoleggiare gli scrittori con molte vane fantasie . " No refutation of a theory which alto- gether ...
... speaking generally , the interval between high water and low is six hours " è stata un ' ingannevole opinione la quale ha poi fatto favoleggiare gli scrittori con molte vane fantasie . " No refutation of a theory which alto- gether ...
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... speaking roughly , on the European and American coasts , Bacon quotes in the De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris no authority ; but in the Novum Organum he ascribes it to Acosta and others . But it is very remarkable that Acosta does not say what ...
... speaking roughly , on the European and American coasts , Bacon quotes in the De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris no authority ; but in the Novum Organum he ascribes it to Acosta and others . But it is very remarkable that Acosta does not say what ...
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Página 316 - Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which' carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant...
Página 342 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 293 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Página 393 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; .nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Página 479 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
Página 292 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Página 284 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 296 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Página 145 - But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity of matter, but only for God's first creature, which was light; to have light, I say, of the growth of all parts of the world.
Página 163 - Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former.