...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." We have already explained that, in attributing three motions to the earth, Copernicus had presented...

...step: and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." We have already explained that, in attributing three motions to the earth, Copernicus had presented...

...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...which he assumes, are proceedings which mark a man who tMnks nothing of introducing fictions of any kind into nature, provided his calculations turn out well."...

...step : and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some other ihings which he assumes, are proceedings which mark a man who thinks nothing of introducing fictions...

...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some 4 Opere di Giordano JBruno, vol. ip 146. 5 Ib. vol. ip 179. other things which he assumes, are proceedings...

...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some > Jlntnii, vol. ip 140. ' 11). vol. ip 179. other things which he assumes, are proceedings which mark...

...step ; and the introduction of so many immovable bodies into nature, as when he makes the sun and the stars immovable, the bodies which are peculiarly lucid...adhere to the earth in a sort of epicycle ; and some » Opere di Giordano Bruno, vol. ip 146. • Ib. vol. ip 179. VOL. I.— 18 other things which he assumes,...

...investigation into Heat. One sentence alone would suffice to show this, namely, his sneer at Copernicus as ' a man who thinks nothing of introducing fictions of...into nature, provided his calculations turn out well : ' Bacon did not understand, what Copernicus profoundly saw, that the only value of an hypothesis...

...Bacon, who with all his wisdom and meanness disparaged the great Copernicus, pronouncing his theories as "proceedings which mark a man who thinks nothing of...nature, provided his calculations turn out well." This corrupi judge doubted whether instruments were of any practical advantage, while Galileo was studying...

...Copernicus, which Bacon rejected with positive disdain: *In the system of Copernicus there are many and grave difficulties; for the threefold motion with...introducing fictions of any kind into nature, provided his caleulations turn out well.' He did not use skilfully his own system. His conjectures in physics, though...