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... hands of a tailor , who was on the point of cutting it up for measures . Brighter days were , however , at hand : literature and the arts and sciences found a congenial abode at Florence , and patrons in the Medici family . Cosmo , the ...
... hands of a tailor , who was on the point of cutting it up for measures . Brighter days were , however , at hand : literature and the arts and sciences found a congenial abode at Florence , and patrons in the Medici family . Cosmo , the ...
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... hand of the new reformers . The first Society instituted for the investigation of physical science , was that established at Naples , in the year 1560 , with the name of Academia Secre- torum Naturæ . The Members of this Academy appear ...
... hand of the new reformers . The first Society instituted for the investigation of physical science , was that established at Naples , in the year 1560 , with the name of Academia Secre- torum Naturæ . The Members of this Academy appear ...
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... Hand - Book , Northern Italy , p . 549 . " See , for some curious particulars relative to this Society , Mr. D. Bethune's Life of Galileo . After slumbering for many years , it was reorganized about forty years ago . Some of our ...
... Hand - Book , Northern Italy , p . 549 . " See , for some curious particulars relative to this Society , Mr. D. Bethune's Life of Galileo . After slumbering for many years , it was reorganized about forty years ago . Some of our ...
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... hands and seales of the Right Honorable the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England , and the two Lord Chief Justices . Yet for a further and more full satisfaction of all men , as well ignorant detractours , as vertuous favorers of ...
... hands and seales of the Right Honorable the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England , and the two Lord Chief Justices . Yet for a further and more full satisfaction of all men , as well ignorant detractours , as vertuous favorers of ...
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... hand in hand with the severer studies of astronomy and mathematics . But it must be borne in mind , that the College was destined for noble youths , to whom , at that period , a knowledge of fencing was of more vital importance than the ...
... hand in hand with the severer studies of astronomy and mathematics . But it must be borne in mind , that the College was destined for noble youths , to whom , at that period , a knowledge of fencing was of more vital importance than the ...
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Page 141 - The business and design of the Royal Society is — To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practises, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments — (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick or Logick...
Page 299 - Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.
Page 362 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Page 55 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 520 - Essays on some of the Dangers to Christian Faith which may arise from the Teaching or the Conduct of its Professors.
Page 121 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of nature's sea : The work he did we ought t...
Page 29 - Ireland, though not so constantly, at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins, then warden of Wadham College; and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge, at the lodgings of the honourable Mr. Robert Boyle, then resident for divers years in Oxford.
Page 82 - The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Page 56 - THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men ; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days
Page 301 - The proof you sent me I like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new propositions I have since thought on, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets.