 | 1840 - 520 pages
...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
...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 - 606 pages
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 868 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...seen was an illusion of witchcraft ; and they tried, as Galileo says}:, with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky. No one could be better fitted than Galileo for such a warfare. His great knowledge, clear intellect,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 644 pages
...hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring with the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.' Another opponent of Galileo, one Christmann, says in a book he published, ' We are not to think that... | |
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... 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 of Philosophy at Pisa labouring... 
