Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... known by their Christian names of Ra- phael , Michel Angelo , Fra Paolo , Gui- do , and Titian . Several authors have followed Rossi in styling Galileo illegitimate , but without having any probable grounds even when they wrote , and ...
... known by their Christian names of Ra- phael , Michel Angelo , Fra Paolo , Gui- do , and Titian . Several authors have followed Rossi in styling Galileo illegitimate , but without having any probable grounds even when they wrote , and ...
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... known , but upon his death the Elector granted a pension to his family , who then took up their abode at Munich . On the taking of that city in 1636 , in the course of the bloody thirty years ' war , which was then raging between the ...
... known , but upon his death the Elector granted a pension to his family , who then took up their abode at Munich . On the taking of that city in 1636 , in the course of the bloody thirty years ' war , which was then raging between the ...
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... known this , and intro- duced into his book , not only the mention of the fact , makes Aristarchus give a reason why the sun's apo but an explanation of its cause . Accordingly he gee ( or place of greatest distance from the earth ) ...
... known this , and intro- duced into his book , not only the mention of the fact , makes Aristarchus give a reason why the sun's apo but an explanation of its cause . Accordingly he gee ( or place of greatest distance from the earth ) ...
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... known by the names of Galileo's tube , the perspective , the dou- ble eye - glass the names of telescope and microscope were suggested by Demisiano , as we are told by Lagalla in his treatise on the Moon . * : CHAPTER VII . Discovery of ...
... known by the names of Galileo's tube , the perspective , the dou- ble eye - glass the names of telescope and microscope were suggested by Demisiano , as we are told by Lagalla in his treatise on the Moon . * : CHAPTER VII . Discovery of ...
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... known that , adopting some of the opi- nions of Bruno and Brutti , Galileo , even before he had seen the satellites of Jupi- ter , had allowed the possibility of the discovery of new planets ; and we can scarcely suppose that they had ...
... known that , adopting some of the opi- nions of Bruno and Brutti , Galileo , even before he had seen the satellites of Jupi- ter , had allowed the possibility of the discovery of new planets ; and we can scarcely suppose that they had ...
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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...