Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... learned the art of printing during his stay in the Low Countries 6 ib . 7 Reeds originally used , in place of quills , for making pens ib . · by many eastern nations were in use for writing as late as the 8th century , and are still ...
... learned the art of printing during his stay in the Low Countries 6 ib . 7 Reeds originally used , in place of quills , for making pens ib . · by many eastern nations were in use for writing as late as the 8th century , and are still ...
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... learned on the subject ; and returning to Padua , he immediately applied him- self to consider the means by which such an effect could be produced . Fuccarius , in an abusive letter which he wrote on the subject , asserts that one of ...
... learned on the subject ; and returning to Padua , he immediately applied him- self to consider the means by which such an effect could be produced . Fuccarius , in an abusive letter which he wrote on the subject , asserts that one of ...
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... learned from the habits of constant correspondence with each other , and alternate offices of counsel and assist- ance . - Let the first fruits of wisdom be love ; and so let the Lynceans love each other as if united by the strictest ...
... learned from the habits of constant correspondence with each other , and alternate offices of counsel and assist- ance . - Let the first fruits of wisdom be love ; and so let the Lynceans love each other as if united by the strictest ...
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... learned editors of what is commonly called the Jesuit's edi- tion of Newton's " Principia " were of opinion , that in adopting the Copernican system they should transgress a mandate emanating from any thing short of infal- lible wisdom ...
... learned editors of what is commonly called the Jesuit's edi- tion of Newton's " Principia " were of opinion , that in adopting the Copernican system they should transgress a mandate emanating from any thing short of infal- lible wisdom ...
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... learned from the account which Pieroni sent to Galileo of his endeavours to print them in Germany . He first took the manu- script to Vienna , but found that every book printed there must receive the ap- probation of the Jesuits ; and ...
... learned from the account which Pieroni sent to Galileo of his endeavours to print them in Germany . He first took the manu- script to Vienna , but found that every book printed there must receive the ap- probation of the Jesuits ; and ...
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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...