Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... dysentery in the Archipelago 8 9 Character of Bernstorf , the Danish Prime Minister in 1757 4 His rule to interfere with no man concern- ing religious opinions ib . • Page ib . The party remain a whole year in xii INDEX AND SUMMARY .
... dysentery in the Archipelago 8 9 Character of Bernstorf , the Danish Prime Minister in 1757 4 His rule to interfere with no man concern- ing religious opinions ib . • Page ib . The party remain a whole year in xii INDEX AND SUMMARY .
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... whole year in Egypt 9 Niebuhr determines the longitude of Alexandria , Kahira , and other places , by lunar observations Anecdote of Turkish ignorance respecting telescopes Description of the palace of Joseph , at Kahira Page Reaches ...
... whole year in Egypt 9 Niebuhr determines the longitude of Alexandria , Kahira , and other places , by lunar observations Anecdote of Turkish ignorance respecting telescopes Description of the palace of Joseph , at Kahira Page Reaches ...
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... whole of his life . He was also passionately fond of painting , and at one time he wished to make it his profession : and his skill and judgment of pictures were highly esteemed by the most eminent contemporary artists , who did not ...
... whole of his life . He was also passionately fond of painting , and at one time he wished to make it his profession : and his skill and judgment of pictures were highly esteemed by the most eminent contemporary artists , who did not ...
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... whole attention was soon directed to the enjoyment of the new sensations thus communicated to him , insomuch that Vincenzo , finding his prognostics veri- fied , began to repent his indirect sanc- tion , and privately requested Ricci to ...
... whole attention was soon directed to the enjoyment of the new sensations thus communicated to him , insomuch that Vincenzo , finding his prognostics veri- fied , began to repent his indirect sanc- tion , and privately requested Ricci to ...
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... whole week will be found to complete the cycle of the seven planets . Mercury Venus . Moon . • uns Saturn . Mars . Jupiter The other stars were supposed to be fixed in an outer orb , beyond which were two crystalline spheres , ( as they ...
... whole week will be found to complete the cycle of the seven planets . Mercury Venus . Moon . • uns Saturn . Mars . Jupiter The other stars were supposed to be fixed in an outer orb , beyond which were two crystalline spheres , ( as they ...
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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...