Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... mentioned to Ferdinand de ' Medici , the reigning Duke of Tuscany , as a young man of whom the highest expectations might be entertained . By the Duke's patronage he was nominated , in 1589 , to the lectureship of mathematics at Pisa ...
... mentioned to Ferdinand de ' Medici , the reigning Duke of Tuscany , as a young man of whom the highest expectations might be entertained . By the Duke's patronage he was nominated , in 1589 , to the lectureship of mathematics at Pisa ...
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... mentioned of the in- termission of his philosophical studies , though in itself trivial , agrees very well with Galileo's original medical destina- tion . Urstisius is not a fictitious name , as possibly Salusbury may have thought ...
... mentioned of the in- termission of his philosophical studies , though in itself trivial , agrees very well with Galileo's original medical destina- tion . Urstisius is not a fictitious name , as possibly Salusbury may have thought ...
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... mentioned , the rest of Gali- leo's contemporaries well deserved the contemptuous epithet which he fixed on them of Paper Philosophers , for , to use his own words , in a letter to Kepler on this subject , " this sort of men fancied ...
... mentioned , the rest of Gali- leo's contemporaries well deserved the contemptuous epithet which he fixed on them of Paper Philosophers , for , to use his own words , in a letter to Kepler on this subject , " this sort of men fancied ...
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... mentioned as Galileo's friend and pupil , writes to him in the following words : " I have brought the instrument which you in- vented for measuring heat into several convenient and perfect forms , so that the difference of temperature ...
... mentioned as Galileo's friend and pupil , writes to him in the following words : " I have brought the instrument which you in- vented for measuring heat into several convenient and perfect forms , so that the difference of temperature ...
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... mentioned this mistake of one instrument for the other , and charges Voltaire with the more inex- cusable error of confounding Galileo's with the Mariner's Compass . He re- fers to a treatise by Hulsius for his authority in attributing ...
... mentioned this mistake of one instrument for the other , and charges Voltaire with the more inex- cusable error of confounding Galileo's with the Mariner's Compass . He re- fers to a treatise by Hulsius for his authority in attributing ...
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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...