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... arrived at Frauenburg on May 24 , 1543 , in time to be touched by the hands of the dying man , who in a few hours after expired . The house in which Copernicus lived at Allenstein is still in existence , and in the walls of his chamber ...
... arrived at Frauenburg on May 24 , 1543 , in time to be touched by the hands of the dying man , who in a few hours after expired . The house in which Copernicus lived at Allenstein is still in existence , and in the walls of his chamber ...
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... arrived at Rostock , where Tycho found some old friends waiting to receive him . He was now in doubt as to where he should find a home , when the Austrian Emperor Rudolph , himself a liberal patron of science and the fine arts , having ...
... arrived at Rostock , where Tycho found some old friends waiting to receive him . He was now in doubt as to where he should find a home , when the Austrian Emperor Rudolph , himself a liberal patron of science and the fine arts , having ...
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... arrived at certain conclusions with regard to the nature of their movements . At first , he believed like Kepler that comets were projected in straight lines from the Sun ; this sup- position having been upheld on account of the great ...
... arrived at certain conclusions with regard to the nature of their movements . At first , he believed like Kepler that comets were projected in straight lines from the Sun ; this sup- position having been upheld on account of the great ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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