Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... Ancient opinions on the cause of the tides Galileo becomes blind at the age of 72 his previous observation of the libration of the moon 66 , 67 71-74 73 49 76 ib . • State of mechanical science before the time of Galileo , with comments ...
... Ancient opinions on the cause of the tides Galileo becomes blind at the age of 72 his previous observation of the libration of the moon 66 , 67 71-74 73 49 76 ib . • State of mechanical science before the time of Galileo , with comments ...
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... ancients , its composition and colours Pago 8 The laws of the Twelve Tables , among the Romans , were engraved on oaken planks Of the copyists of books before the in- vention of printing 9-13 3 · The Arundelian marbles , account of The ...
... ancients , its composition and colours Pago 8 The laws of the Twelve Tables , among the Romans , were engraved on oaken planks Of the copyists of books before the in- vention of printing 9-13 3 · The Arundelian marbles , account of The ...
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... ancient sculpture 4-13 Remarks on the remaining specimens of Egyptian sculpture 4 , 5 Birth and parentage of , 1474 2 Discovered an early bent to the fine arts ib . Becomes the pupil of a celebrated painter ib . Surprises his master by ...
... ancient sculpture 4-13 Remarks on the remaining specimens of Egyptian sculpture 4 , 5 Birth and parentage of , 1474 2 Discovered an early bent to the fine arts ib . Becomes the pupil of a celebrated painter ib . Surprises his master by ...
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... ancient Florentine family , which , in the middle of the fourteenth century , adopted this surname instead of Bona- juti , under which several of their an- cestors filled distinguished offices in the Florentine state . Some misapprehen ...
... ancient Florentine family , which , in the middle of the fourteenth century , adopted this surname instead of Bona- juti , under which several of their an- cestors filled distinguished offices in the Florentine state . Some misapprehen ...
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... ancient opinions , only a few traces now remain , principally preserved in the works of those who were adverse to them . Archimedes says expressly that Aristarchus of Samos , who lived about 300 B. C. , taught the immobility of the sun ...
... ancient opinions , only a few traces now remain , principally preserved in the works of those who were adverse to them . Archimedes says expressly that Aristarchus of Samos , who lived about 300 B. C. , taught the immobility of the sun ...
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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...