| 1840 - 520 páginas
...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! " SATURN is visible before the break of day, a few degrees to the west from Jupiter : he rises on the... | |
| John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 páginas
...this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky." Another opponent of Galileo deserves to be named, were it only for the singular impudence of the charge... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...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." Another opponent of Galileo deserves to be named, were it only for the singular impudence of the charge... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring bel'ore the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky." Another opponent of Galileo deserves to be named, were it only for the singular impudence of the charge... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...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." Another opponent of Galileo deserves to be named, were it only for the singular impudence of the charge... | |
| 1833 - 208 páginas
...this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets [ie Jupiter's satellites,] out of the sky." pp. 92, 93. The following is a specimen of the reasoning... | |
| 1839 - 868 páginas
...should have at all this solemn folly ! And figure the Professor of Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky 1 " Galileo could well afford to laugh, for he knew that the telescope would become a common instrument,... | |
| William Whewell - 1840 - 606 páginas
...discoveries, directly contradicting it, which Galileo made. By experiment, as I have elsewhere stated f, he disproved the Aristotelian doctrine that bodies...adversaries as he pleased. Thus when an Aristotelian f * Lift ofGaM*>, p. 9. t Hut. Ind. Sei., ii. 46. J Life of Galileo, p. 29. § Ib., p. 33. rejected... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 páginas
...this glorious folly, and to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa laboring 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... | |
| John Pringle Nichol - 1842 - 278 páginas
...should have at all this solemn folly ! And figure the Professor of Pisa laboring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky."f Galileo could well afford to laugh, for he knew that the telescope would become a common instrument,... | |
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