 Castelli, and other names illustrious — the system of Copernicus — the very theories of recent geologists, are anticipated by Da Vinci within the compass of a few pages, not perhaps in the most precise language, or on the most conclusive reasoning,...  The Arena - Page 1921895Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 714 pages
...Castelli, and other names illustrious, the system of Copernicus, the very theories of recent geologers, are anticipated by Da Vinci, within the compass of...so as to strike us with something like the awe of praeternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle CHAP,... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...anticipated by Da Vinci within the compass of a few pages, " not in the most precise language, or in the most conclusive " reasoning, but so as to strike us with something of the awe " of preternatural knowledge. Leonardo himself speaks of " the earth's annual motion in... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...established basis. The discoveries which made Galileo, and Kepler, and Maestlin, and Manrolycus, and Castelli, and other names illustrious, the system...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism he first laid down the grand principle of .Bacon, that experiment and... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...Castelli, and other names illustrious, the system of Copernicus, the very theories of recent geologers, are anticipated by Da Vinci within the compass of...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge." Tyclw Brake, 1546. moon and the comets, and the refraction cf the rays of light, &c., &c. — Enc.... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...which made Galileo, Kepler, Castelli, and other names illustrious — the system of Copernicus — the very theories of recent geologists, are anticipated...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle of Bacon, that experiment and... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...which made Galileo, Kepler, Castelli, and other names illustrious — the system of Copernicus — the very theories of recent geologists, are anticipated...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle of Bacon, that experiment and... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Painters - 1845 - 288 pages
...Literature of Europe.' Galileo, Kepler, Castelli, and other names illustrious—the system of Copernicus — the very theories of recent geologists, are anticipated...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle of Bacon, that experiment and... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...Castelti, and other names illustrious, the system of Copernicus, the very theories of recent geologers, are anticipated by Da Vinci within the compass of...'something like the awe of preternatural knowledge." Tycha Brake, 1546. A celebrated astronomer. We are indebted to his observations for a more correct... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Art - 1853 - 336 pages
...very theories of recent geologists, are anticipated by Lionardo da Vinci, within the compass of a very few pages, not perhaps in the most precise language,...something like the awe of preternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle of Bacon, that experiment and... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1854 - 630 pages
...Castelli, and other names illustrious, the system of Copernicus, the very theories of recent geologers, are anticipated by Da Vinci, within the compass of...so as to strike us with something like the awe of prseternatural knowledge. In an age of so much dogmatism, he first laid down the grand principle of... | |
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