Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... Passed 7 years at Oxford Dr. Smith accompanies the Duke of Buc cleugh , in his travels in 1764 Interesting circumstances on taking leave of the university · Anecdote related by the Doctor , of one of his students Smith is introduced to ...
... Passed 7 years at Oxford Dr. Smith accompanies the Duke of Buc cleugh , in his travels in 1764 Interesting circumstances on taking leave of the university · Anecdote related by the Doctor , of one of his students Smith is introduced to ...
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... passing at once from one extreme to the other , he framed an unsupported theory to ac- count for the number of satellites which were round Jupiter , and for those which he expected to meet with elsewhere . Kepler has been styled the ...
... passing at once from one extreme to the other , he framed an unsupported theory to ac- count for the number of satellites which were round Jupiter , and for those which he expected to meet with elsewhere . Kepler has been styled the ...
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... for it by supposing that the rays of the sun passed freely through the body of the planet , and Galileo takes occasion to praise him for not being deterred from D 2 adopting the system , which , on the whole , GALILEO . 35.
... for it by supposing that the rays of the sun passed freely through the body of the planet , and Galileo takes occasion to praise him for not being deterred from D 2 adopting the system , which , on the whole , GALILEO . 35.
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... passed great part of his time , particularly during his frequent indispositions , conceiving that the air of Florence was prejudicial to him . Cesi was very anxious for their appear- ance , since they were ( in his own words ) so hard a ...
... passed great part of his time , particularly during his frequent indispositions , conceiving that the air of Florence was prejudicial to him . Cesi was very anxious for their appear- ance , since they were ( in his own words ) so hard a ...
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... passed by without notice . " Some years ago , a salutary edict was promulgated at Rome , which , in order to obviate the perilous scandals of the present age , enjoined an opportune silence on the Py- thagorean opinion of the earth's ...
... passed by without notice . " Some years ago , a salutary edict was promulgated at Rome , which , in order to obviate the perilous scandals of the present age , enjoined an opportune silence on the Py- thagorean opinion of the earth's ...
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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...