 | 1840 - 520 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1853 - 684 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
