Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... seems indis- putable . The fate of the two writers is directly opposed the one to the other ; Bacon's works seem to be most studied and appreciated when his readers have come to their perusal , imbued with knowledge and a philosophical ...
... seems indis- putable . The fate of the two writers is directly opposed the one to the other ; Bacon's works seem to be most studied and appreciated when his readers have come to their perusal , imbued with knowledge and a philosophical ...
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... seems to have as- sisted them to his utmost power . In a letter to his mother , dated 1600 , relative to the intended marriage of his sister Livia with a certain Pompeo Baldi , he agrees to the match , but recommends its temporary ...
... seems to have as- sisted them to his utmost power . In a letter to his mother , dated 1600 , relative to the intended marriage of his sister Livia with a certain Pompeo Baldi , he agrees to the match , but recommends its temporary ...
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... seems likely that some degree of acquaintance , if not of friendly intercourse , would have sub- sisted between Mæstlin , and his sup- posed pupil , such as in fact we find subsisting between Mæstlin and his ac- knowledged pupil Kepler ...
... seems likely that some degree of acquaintance , if not of friendly intercourse , would have sub- sisted between Mæstlin , and his sup- posed pupil , such as in fact we find subsisting between Mæstlin and his ac- knowledged pupil Kepler ...
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... seems a great paradox , must needs have been moved , not to say forced , by more powerful reasons . For this cause I am become very curious to dive , as they say , into the bottom of this business . " It seems mprobable that Galileo ...
... seems a great paradox , must needs have been moved , not to say forced , by more powerful reasons . For this cause I am become very curious to dive , as they say , into the bottom of this business . " It seems mprobable that Galileo ...
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... seems seldom to have taken any very enlarged views of the science on which he was engaged . With a few exceptions similar to those above mentioned , the rest of Gali- leo's contemporaries well deserved the contemptuous epithet which he ...
... seems seldom to have taken any very enlarged views of the science on which he was engaged . With a few exceptions similar to those above mentioned , the rest of Gali- leo's contemporaries well deserved the contemptuous epithet which he ...
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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...