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... Lives of Eminent Persons - Página 14por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...will wield SO 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 ; Already by thy reasoning this I guess 85 Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...will wield so 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 : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, 85 Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 318 páginas
...wield 80 The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances j how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, 85 Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposes! t That bodies... | |
| 1828 - 1538 páginas
...We recommend all manner of persons to dismiss from their minds all con. siderations of — sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle ; orb in orb ; And be warned by Adam's advice and our own . to know, That which before them on the table lies, I... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 páginas
...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. ' As far as we have advanced,' says Dr. Brown, ' our division seems sufficiently distinct and comprehensive.... | |
| 1834 - 504 páginas
...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.' ' What if the sun Be centre to the world, and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Invited,... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 páginas
...wield 80 ' 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 : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, 86 Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies... | |
| John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 páginas
...contributes to perplex and complicate the general appearances. Accordingly the heavens rapidly become, under this system, " With centric and eccentric scribbled...crossing and penetrating each other in every direction. Mxstlin has given a concise enumeration of the principal orbs which belonged to this theory. After... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...complexity in the heavens is still greater than in the case suggested ; because, in addition to the earth's motions, with which all the stars appear to be impressed,...imagination, but that they exist really and bodily in the heavens,'> he describes seven principal spheres belonging to each planet, which he classes as Eccentrics,... | |
| 1834 - 454 páginas
...was about to lead him, or of rejecting the complicated machinery of former astronomers — the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. His inquiries are remarkable for the patience with which he continued to devise hypotheses, one after... | |
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