Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler1833 |
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... tion of the registers at Pisa and Florence , in which are preserved the dates of his birth , and of his mother's marriage , eighteen months previous to it . * His father , Vincenzo Galilei , was a man of considerable talent and learning ...
... tion of the registers at Pisa and Florence , in which are preserved the dates of his birth , and of his mother's marriage , eighteen months previous to it . * His father , Vincenzo Galilei , was a man of considerable talent and learning ...
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... tion from Aristotle . Galileo thought himself capable of giving the world an example of a sounder and more original mode of thinking ; he felt him- self destined to be the founder of a new school of rational and experimental philosophy ...
... tion from Aristotle . Galileo thought himself capable of giving the world an example of a sounder and more original mode of thinking ; he felt him- self destined to be the founder of a new school of rational and experimental philosophy ...
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... tion which his son now began to receive in the writings of Euclid , from the tuition of an intimate friend , named Ostilio Ricci , who was one of the pro- fessors in the university . Galileo's whole attention was soon directed to the ...
... tion which his son now began to receive in the writings of Euclid , from the tuition of an intimate friend , named Ostilio Ricci , who was one of the pro- fessors in the university . Galileo's whole attention was soon directed to the ...
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... tion and unswerving accuracy of his judgment . In almost every page we discover an allusion to some new ex - parently mysterious laws with the ge- periment , or the germ of some new theory ; and amid all this wonderful fertility it is ...
... tion and unswerving accuracy of his judgment . In almost every page we discover an allusion to some new ex - parently mysterious laws with the ge- periment , or the germ of some new theory ; and amid all this wonderful fertility it is ...
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... tion without lighting on it , for of pre- cisely such a combination of a convex and concave lens , fitted to the ends of an organ pipe by way of tube , did the whole of Galileo's telescope consist . If Porta had stopped here he might ...
... tion without lighting on it , for of pre- cisely such a combination of a convex and concave lens , fitted to the ends of an organ pipe by way of tube , did the whole of Galileo's telescope consist . If Porta had stopped here he might ...
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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...