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,... Chambers's papers for the people - Page 10by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Rupert Hall - Science - 1981 - 379 pages
...comets and new stars, the satellites of Jupiter, the oval shape (as it then appeared) of Saturn ... the weight of air, the possibility or impossibility...thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver . . .' All those named by Wallis except Foster, Grcsham Professor of Astronomy who died in 1652, became... | |
 | John P. Cushing - Philosophy - 2003 - 108 pages
...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...of vacuities and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricel- 25 lian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration... | |
 | William Stirling - Medical - 2003 - 204 pages
...telescopes and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility or impossiblity of vacuities and nature's abhorrence thereof, the...experiment in. quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and ihe degree of acceleration therein .... with other things appertaining to what hath been called the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, Brander Matthews - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 288 pages
...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...in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 2006 - 180 pages
...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...in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein, with divers other things of like nature, some of which were then but... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 704 pages
...selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, the grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of...in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein, and divers other things of like nature." Harvey's inquiries into the... | |
 | ...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...other things of like nature. Some of which were then but new discoveries and others not so generally known and imbraced as now they are, with other things... | |
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