 | 1840 - 520 páginas
...laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if...incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky! " SATURN is visible before the break of day, a few degrees to the west from Jupiter : he rises on the... | |
 | 1833 - 208 páginas
...the authority of the Stagirite above the evidence of their" own senses. " Oh, my dear Kepler," writes Galileo, " how I wish that we could have one hearty...with magical incantations, to charm the new planets [ie Jupiter's satellites,] out of the sky." pp. 92, 93. The following is a specimen of the reasoning... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...laughter we should have at this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if...to think," says Christmann, in the Appendix to his Nodus Gordius, " that Jupiter has four satellites given him by nature, in order, by revolving round... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 páginas
...laughter we should have at this glorious folly 1 and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if...to think," says Christmann, in the Appendix to his Nodus Gorditu, " that Jupiter has four satellites given him by nature, in order, by revolving round... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...should have at this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring bel'ore the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with...to think," says Christmann, in the Appendix to his Nodus Gordius, " that Jupiter has four satellites given him by nature, in order, by revolving round... | |
 | 1839 - 868 páginas
...shouts of laughter we should have at all this solemn folly ! And figure the Professor of Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if...incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky 1 " Galileo could well afford to laugh, for he knew that the telescope would become a common instrument,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 páginas
...they maintained that what was seen was an illusion of witchcraft ; and they tried, as Galileo says}:, with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky. No one could be better fitted than Galileo for such a warfare. His great knowledge, clear intellect,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 páginas
...Aristotle, on all subjects, were among the most incredulous with respect to the discoveries of Galileo. " Oh, my dear Kepler," says Galileo, " how I wish that...incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky." The following argument by Sizzi, a contemporary astronomer of some note, to prove that there can be... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1842 - 278 páginas
...here 1 What shouts of laughter we should have at all this solemn folly ! And figure the Professor of Pisa laboring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments,...incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky."f Galileo could well afford to laugh, for he knew that the telescope would become a common instrument,... | |
 | John Elliotson - 1843 - 106 páginas
...of laughter we should have at this glorious folly ! and jto hear the philosopher of Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to draw the new planets out of the sky." When the assertion that the blood circulated first attracted... | |
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Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here ? What shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly, and to... 
