Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... period Their science and literature 1 , 2 2-10 4 , 5 7,8 • Their manners and general character Customs in regard to the female sex Sources of our knowledge respecting Ma- homet 8-10 10 11 The Somna , or collected traditions , of the ...
... period Their science and literature 1 , 2 2-10 4 , 5 7,8 • Their manners and general character Customs in regard to the female sex Sources of our knowledge respecting Ma- homet 8-10 10 11 The Somna , or collected traditions , of the ...
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... period , it is certain that some among the early Greeks were in possession of several truths , however acquired , con- nected with the economy of the universe , which were afterwards suffered to fall into neglect and oblivion . But the ...
... period , it is certain that some among the early Greeks were in possession of several truths , however acquired , con- nected with the economy of the universe , which were afterwards suffered to fall into neglect and oblivion . But the ...
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... period . " This is the age wherein all men's minds are in a kind of fermentation , and the spirit of wisdom and learning begins to mount and free itself from those drossie and terrene impediments wherewith it has been so long clogged ...
... period . " This is the age wherein all men's minds are in a kind of fermentation , and the spirit of wisdom and learning begins to mount and free itself from those drossie and terrene impediments wherewith it has been so long clogged ...
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... period of his studies at Pisa . His attention was one day arrested by the vibrations of a lamp swinging from the roof of the cathedral , which , whether great or small , seemed to recur at equal intervals . The instruments then em ...
... period of his studies at Pisa . His attention was one day arrested by the vibrations of a lamp swinging from the roof of the cathedral , which , whether great or small , seemed to recur at equal intervals . The instruments then em ...
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... period of his life . Galileo was by no means the first who had ventured to call in question the au- thority of Aristotle in matters of science , although he was undoubtedly the first whose opinions and writings produced a very marked ...
... period of his life . Galileo was by no means the first who had ventured to call in question the au- thority of Aristotle in matters of science , although he was undoubtedly the first whose opinions and writings produced a very marked ...
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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...