 | 1853 - 684 Seiten
...this glorious folly ! And to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa lecturing before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to charm the new planets out of the sky 1" Rub a stick of wax against your coat sleeve, and it emits sparks ; hold it near to light, fleecy... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 Seiten
...this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring with the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.' Another opponent of Galileo, one Christmann, says in a book he published, ' We are not to think that... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 644 Seiten
...this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring with the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.' Another opponent of Galileo, one Christmann, says in a book he published, ' We are not to think that... | |
 | 1846 - 644 Seiten
...glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring before the grand duke with utions, and its religion, from all that had hitherto obtained a place in history." ! " Again, when he turned his telescope to the moon, and discovered that it, so far from being smooth... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 708 Seiten
...(the inequalities of the moon's * Life of Galileo, p. 9. t Hi*/. Ind. Set., B. vi. c. ii. sect. 5. surface, the spots in the sun, the moon-like phases...adversaries as he pleased. Thus when an Aristotelian f rejected the discovery of the irregularities in the moon's surface, because, according to the ancient... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 Seiten
...this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring with the Grandduke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to charm the new planets out of the sky." Another opponent of Galileo, one Christmann, says, in a book he published, " We are not to think that... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 416 Seiten
...this glorious folly ! And to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to charm the new planets out of the sky !" — Galileo to Kepler. nothing can be more loose, and, at the same time, limited, than the description... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 Seiten
...this glorious folly, and to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke, with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky." The following argument by Sizzi, a contemporary astronomer of some note, to prove that there can be... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 Seiten
...this glorious folly, and to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke, with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky." The following argument by Sizzi, a contemporary astronomer of some note, to prove that there can be... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 Seiten
...description that English and American law give of an idiot. The philosophers laboring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations to charm the new planets out of the •ky ! " — Galileo to Kepler. who have attempted to define do no better. Proceeding from the idea... | |
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... whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here ? "What shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly, and to hear the Professor... 
