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... received instructions , immediately after my appointment , to visit the Society's estate at Acton , respecting some legal difficulty of tenure , the details of which I was ignorant of , and had not leisure at the time to ascertain ; it ...
... received instructions , immediately after my appointment , to visit the Society's estate at Acton , respecting some legal difficulty of tenure , the details of which I was ignorant of , and had not leisure at the time to ascertain ; it ...
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... received salaries . - Indepen- dently of this Academy , Leo founded another for the sole study of the Greek language , where , accord- ing to Tiraboschi , a Greek press was established , and the scholiasts on Homer printed . " Those ...
... received salaries . - Indepen- dently of this Academy , Leo founded another for the sole study of the Greek language , where , accord- ing to Tiraboschi , a Greek press was established , and the scholiasts on Homer printed . " Those ...
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... received by many of the lords . This was probably in March 1621 , when the Marquis opened a design for a granted the Temple to the Benchers of the two Societies , called the Inner and Middle Temple . The Temple is spoken of as being ...
... received by many of the lords . This was probably in March 1621 , when the Marquis opened a design for a granted the Temple to the Benchers of the two Societies , called the Inner and Middle Temple . The Temple is spoken of as being ...
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... received from monarchs or princes . Petit - Radel , in his Recherches sur les Bibliothèques Anciennes et Modernes , gives an enume- ration of the number of books , or editions , published in different parts of Europe , from the date of ...
... received from monarchs or princes . Petit - Radel , in his Recherches sur les Bibliothèques Anciennes et Modernes , gives an enume- ration of the number of books , or editions , published in different parts of Europe , from the date of ...
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... received an extraordinary impetus by Harvey's immortal discovery of the circulation of the blood . This went far towards destroying those extra- ordinary hypotheses of Paracelsus and others , described in Sprengel's History of Medicine ...
... received an extraordinary impetus by Harvey's immortal discovery of the circulation of the blood . This went far towards destroying those extra- ordinary hypotheses of Paracelsus and others , described in Sprengel's History of Medicine ...
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Page 146 - 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 32 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Page 309 - 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 372 - 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 129 - 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 33 - 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 88 - 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 59 - 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 60 - 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 358 - It raises water more than forty geometrical feet, by the power of one man onlv ; and in a very short space of time will draw up four vessels of water through a tube or channel not more than a span in width...