The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 páginas |
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Alexandria alpha Centauri ancient angle appear Archimedes Arcturus Aristarchus Aristotle astronomer atoms attraction bodies calculated Canopus centre century CHAPTER circle Cleomedes comets computed conceive conception Coppernicus cosmic cosmos curious dark Democritus Descartes diameter discovery distance doubtless earth endeavour Eratosthenes estimate evident existence fact fixed force Galileo globe gravitation Greek Halley heavens Herschel Hipparchus human hundred idea imagine infinite Jupiter Kepler knowledge known Laplace larger least less light light-years mass mathematical mathematician matter measure mechanical meteorites method miles million mind minute modern moon motion nature nebulæ Newton observation orbit parallax particles perhaps phenomena philosopher physical planetary planets Poseidonius Principia probably problem Ptolemy reached result revolution revolving round satellites Saturn seems sense simply solar system space speed sphere stars stellar Strabo suppose surface telescope theory things thought thousand tion true truth turn universe Uranus vast wonderful WORLD MACHINE
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Página 40 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars...
Página 40 - And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof...
Página 289 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Página 258 - Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears the soft with the smooth air along...
Página 376 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shall endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed : But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 17 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 376 - FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail ; A musical but melancholy chime, Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Página 235 - In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series.
Página 187 - There are seven windows in the head: two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.
Página 12 - EXPERIENCE. The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, — Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; — Some to see, some to be guessed, They...