History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volumen1J. W. Parker, 1857 - 1447 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Alexandria Almagest ancient appears Arabian Aristotelian Aristotle asserted astro astrology astronomers attempt Bacon called cause celestial century character circle circular conceived concerning connexion considered Copernican system Copernicus cycle Dæmon discovery distance distinct diurnal motion doctrine earth eccentric eclipses employed endeavour epicycle errour Evection facts Galileo geometrical Greek Greek Astronomy heavenly bodies heavens heliocentric Hipparchus Hist hypothesis ideas indistinct Inductive inequality instance intellectual Kepler kind knowledge laws manner mathematical means mechanical men's minds middle ages moon moon's motion move mystical nature notice object observations opinions Opus Majus orbit phenomena philosophy physical science planets Plato Plotinus Precession principles Proclus progress Ptolemy reason referred relations remarkable revolve Roger Bacon says scientific Sect speak speculations sphere stars stationary period sun's supposed theory things thought tion treatises true truth Tycho Tycho Brahe universe views writers
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Página 139 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens 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 180 - Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus
Página 300 - The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither.
Página 256 - Egypt; much useful experience had been acquired in the practice of arts and manufactures; but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They...
Página 180 - Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 34 - Aristotle, in a passage already cited, "decides that there is no void on such arguments as this : in a void there could be no difference of up and down; for as in nothing there are no differences, so there are none in a privation or negation; but a void is merely a privation or negation...
Página 208 - By the grace of God, gentlemen hearers, I have performed my promise ; I have redeemed my pledge. I have explained, according to my ability, the definitions, postulates, axioms, and first eight propositions of the Elements of Euclid. Here, sinking under the weight of years, I lay down my art and my instruments.
Página 324 - I urged as a thing to be sought; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations.
Página 2 - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Página 370 - In the development of this plan, all the leading portions of science are expounded in the most complete shape which they had at that time assumed ; and improvements of a very wide and striking kind are proposed in some of the principal of these departments. Even if the work had had no leading purpose, it would have been highly valuable as a treasure of the most solid knowledge and soundest speculations of the time ; even if it had contained no such details, it would have been a work most remarkable...