Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... afterwards married to Taddeo Galletti : her sister Virginia married Benedetto Landucci . Galileo mentions one of his sisters , ( without naming her ) as living with him in 1619 at Bellos- guardo . Michel Angelo is probably the same ...
... afterwards married to Taddeo Galletti : her sister Virginia married Benedetto Landucci . Galileo mentions one of his sisters , ( without naming her ) as living with him in 1619 at Bellos- guardo . Michel Angelo is probably the same ...
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... afterwards developed in his Dialogues on Motion . These were not published till fifty years afterwards , and we shall reserve an account of their contents till we reach that period of his life . Galileo was by no means the first who had ...
... afterwards developed in his Dialogues on Motion . These were not published till fifty years afterwards , and we shall reserve an account of their contents till we reach that period of his life . Galileo was by no means the first who had ...
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... afterwards in the person of James Metius of Alkmaer , who is mentioned by Huyghens and Des Cartes , but his claims rest upon no authority whatever comparable to that which supports the other two . About half a century afterwards ...
... afterwards in the person of James Metius of Alkmaer , who is mentioned by Huyghens and Des Cartes , but his claims rest upon no authority whatever comparable to that which supports the other two . About half a century afterwards ...
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... insinuation : in that case the Dutch glass must have been similar to what was afterwards called the astro- nomical telescope , consisting of two • Ibid . convex glasses distant from each other by the sum of 24 GALILEO .
... insinuation : in that case the Dutch glass must have been similar to what was afterwards called the astro- nomical telescope , consisting of two • Ibid . convex glasses distant from each other by the sum of 24 GALILEO .
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... afterwards , when the reality of Jupiter's satellites was in- contestably established , and Huyghens had discovered a similar satellite near Saturn , he was so rash as to declare his belief , ( unwarned by the vast pro- gress which ...
... afterwards , when the reality of Jupiter's satellites was in- contestably established , and Huyghens had discovered a similar satellite near Saturn , he was so rash as to declare his belief , ( unwarned by the vast pro- gress which ...
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Página 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 8 - 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 13 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 32 - 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 29 - 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 18 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase money 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 30 - ... 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 36 - 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 62 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...