The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic MechanismLongmans, Green, 1907 - 488 pagine |
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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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Pagina 48 - 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...
Pagina 450 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Pagina 448 - But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Pagina 48 - And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof...
Pagina 398 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt 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.
Pagina 280 - 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...
Pagina 25 - 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.
Pagina 304 - Col viso ritornai per tutte quante Le sette spere, e vidi questo globo Tal, ch...
Pagina 398 - 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.
Pagina 450 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.