 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
 | John Stoughton - Scientists - 1879 - 358 pages
...and its turning on its own axis ; the inequalities and selenography of the sun ; the several phases of Venus and Mercury ; the improvement of telescopes,...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... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 500 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...nature's abhorrence thereof ; the Torricellian experiment inquicksilver; the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein; and divers other... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 526 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." To what great results this... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 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...grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of the air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities and Nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 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.,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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...and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experi-7« ment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 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...and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experi- 70 ment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies and the degree of acceleration therein,... | |
 | 1886 - 852 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,...the possibility or impossibility of vacuities, and nature s abhorrence thereof ; the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver ; the descent of heavy bodies,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...and the 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 lor that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility or impossibility of vacuities and Nature's abhorrence... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Biography - 1887 - 718 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... | |
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