Lives of Eminent PersonsBaldwin and Cradock, 1833 - 571 páginas |
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... known if any intelligible interpretation were there given of the mysterious passage above quoted , and his translation is so devoid of meaning as strongly to militate against this idea . Porta , indeed , claimed the invention as his own ...
... known if any intelligible interpretation were there given of the mysterious passage above quoted , and his translation is so devoid of meaning as strongly to militate against this idea . Porta , indeed , claimed the invention as his own ...
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... known there . During more than a month Galileo's whole time was employed in exhibiting his instrument to the principal inhabit- ants of Venice , who thronged to his house to satisfy themselves of the truth of the wonderful stories in ...
... known there . During more than a month Galileo's whole time was employed in exhibiting his instrument to the principal inhabit- ants of Venice , who thronged to his house to satisfy themselves of the truth of the wonderful stories in ...
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... known by the names of Galileo's tube , the perspective , the dou- ble eye - glass : the names of telescope and microscope were suggested by Demisiano , as we are told by Lagalla in his treatise on the Moon . * CHAPTER VII . Discovery of ...
... known by the names of Galileo's tube , the perspective , the dou- ble eye - glass : the names of telescope and microscope were suggested by Demisiano , as we are told by Lagalla in his treatise on the Moon . * CHAPTER VII . Discovery of ...
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... known that , adopting some of the opi- nions of Bruno and Brutti , Galileo , even before he had seen the satellites of Jupi- ter , had allowed the possibility of the discovery of new planets ; and we can scarcely suppose that they had ...
... known that , adopting some of the opi- nions of Bruno and Brutti , Galileo , even before he had seen the satellites of Jupi- ter , had allowed the possibility of the discovery of new planets ; and we can scarcely suppose that they had ...
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... known by its Italian title , Della Crusca , belongs to the same period . lonna , Lucas Valerio , Guiducci , Welser , Giovanni Fabro , Terrentio , Virginio Ce- sarini , Ciampoli , Molitor , Cardinal Bar- berino , ( nephew of Pope Urban ...
... known by its Italian title , Della Crusca , belongs to the same period . lonna , Lucas Valerio , Guiducci , Welser , Giovanni Fabro , Terrentio , Virginio Ce- sarini , Ciampoli , Molitor , Cardinal Bar- berino , ( nephew of Pope Urban ...
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Página 20 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 14 - 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 35 - 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 33 - ... 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 23 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the " highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but " peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice ; " all the rest being brought about by the natural course of
Página 11 - 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 39 - 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 22 - ... to demonstrate, that the most effectual plan for advancing a people to greatness, is to maintain that order of things which nature has pointed out, by allowing every man, as long as he observes the rules of justice, to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into the freest competition with those of his fellow-citizens.
Página 6 - I thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion.
Página 1 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.