And, on the contrary, how ours has expanded, not only with our eyes, but even more with the instruments we have applied to them! Galileo and the telescope is the classic example; who has not envied him, for his first glimpses of the mountains of the moon,... Elements of General History: Ancient and Modern - الصفحة 172بواسطة abbé Millot (Claude François Xavier) - 1823عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John Blair Linn - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...in nature. By still improving his discovery, he at last procured one that magnified three and thirty times. In a word he discovered the mountains of the...phases of Venus, the spots and rotation of the Sun. But enlightening mankind was exposing himself to dreadful misfortunes. The persecutions which he met... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...in nature. By still improving his discovery, he at last procured one that magnified three-and thirty times. In a word, he discovered the mountains of the...phases of Venus, the spots and rotation of the Sun. But enlightening mankind was exposing himself to dreadful misfortunes. The persecutions which he met... | |
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