 | 1840 - 520 lapas
...laugh together! Here, at Padua, is the principal Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the Moon and planets...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 lapas
...laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if...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 lapas
...laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets...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 lapas
...laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets...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 lapas
...refuses to do. Why are you not here ? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly 1 and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring...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 lapas
...should have at this glorious folly ! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring bel'ore the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with...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 lapas
...laughter we should have at 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 lapas
...here ? What shouts of laughter we should have at all this solemn folly ! And figure the Professor of Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical...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 lapas
...they maintained that what was 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 lapas
...laughter we should have at this glorious folly, and to hear the Professor of Philosophy at Pisa laboring before the Grand Duke, with logical arguments, as...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 only... | |
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Oh, my dear Kepler," says Galileo, " how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which... 
