Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... object of great admiration . If we consider him merely as an author and philosopher , the light in which we view him at pre- sent , though very estimable , he was yet inferior to his contemporary Galileo , perhaps even to Kepler . Bacon ...
... object of great admiration . If we consider him merely as an author and philosopher , the light in which we view him at pre- sent , though very estimable , he was yet inferior to his contemporary Galileo , perhaps even to Kepler . Bacon ...
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... object of his Serene Highness to be , that leisure and opportunity should be given me to com- plete my works without employing my- self in lecturing . And , in short , I should wish to gain my bread from my writings , which I would ...
... object of his Serene Highness to be , that leisure and opportunity should be given me to com- plete my works without employing my- self in lecturing . And , in short , I should wish to gain my bread from my writings , which I would ...
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... object in the heavens which Aris- totle had never suspected , immediately refused all credit to those senses , to ... objects most clearly , convex those which are nearer , whence they may be used to assist the sight . With a concave ...
... object in the heavens which Aris- totle had never suspected , immediately refused all credit to those senses , to ... objects most clearly , convex those which are nearer , whence they may be used to assist the sight . With a concave ...
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... object by increasing the visible angle under which it is viewed . These , among the many claimants , are certainly ... objects nearer than they usually appeared . According to his own account , this ge- neral rumour , which was confirmed ...
... object by increasing the visible angle under which it is viewed . These , among the many claimants , are certainly ... objects nearer than they usually appeared . According to his own account , this ge- neral rumour , which was confirmed ...
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... object and spirit of which seem to have been greatly misunderstood , even by some of Kepler's intimate friends.— They considered it as a covert attack upon Galileo , and , accordingly , Maestlin thus writes to him : - " In your Essay ...
... object and spirit of which seem to have been greatly misunderstood , even by some of Kepler's intimate friends.— They considered it as a covert attack upon Galileo , and , accordingly , Maestlin thus writes to him : - " In your Essay ...
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Стр. 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Стр. 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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*.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...