 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,...  A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents - Page 32by Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 527 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1876 - 506 pages
...Mercury, the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of the air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities...heavy bodies and the degrees of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not... | |
 | A barrister of the Inner Temple - 1876 - 638 pages
...and " Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, the grind" ing of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, " the possibility or impossibility of vacuities...and "Nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experi" ment in quicksilver with other things pertaining " to what hath been called the new philosophy."... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 680 pages
...Mercury, the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of the air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities...heavy bodies and the degrees of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...Mercury, the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of the air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities...heavy bodies and the degrees of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 688 pages
...experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degrees of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which...discoveries, and others not so generally known and embraced as they now are, with other things appertaining to what hath been called the New Philosophy... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1879 - 358 pages
...Venus and Mercury ; the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose; the weight of air; the possibility or impossibility of vacuities,...therein ; and divers other things of like nature." l The infant association became incorporated in 1662, under Charles n., who gave them a mace, and subscribed... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 pages
...Mercury, the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of the air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities...heavy bodies and the degrees of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 526 pages
...Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, the grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities,...in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein, and divers other things of like nature." To what great results this... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 500 pages
...Venus and Mercury; the improvement of telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose; the weight of air; the possibility or impossibility of vacuities,...nature's abhorrence thereof ; the Torricellian experiment inquicksilver; the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein; and divers other... | |
 | 1880 - 844 pages
...iidtiiruV libhorrence thereof ; the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver ; the descent oi In-avy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.'1 In 1662. the persevering philosophers were, through the "grace and favor" of CLiarlrs II.,... | |
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