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Page 23
... attention chiefly to science and mathe- matics , but paid no particular attention to the study of astronomy . Maestlin , the professor of mathe- matics , whose lectures he attended , upheld the Copernican theory , and Kepler , who ...
... attention chiefly to science and mathe- matics , but paid no particular attention to the study of astronomy . Maestlin , the professor of mathe- matics , whose lectures he attended , upheld the Copernican theory , and Kepler , who ...
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... attention was attracted by the oscil- lation of a brass lamp suspended from the ceiling of the cathedral at Pisa . Galileo was impressed with the regularity of its motion as it swung backwards and forwards , and was led to imagine that ...
... attention was attracted by the oscil- lation of a brass lamp suspended from the ceiling of the cathedral at Pisa . Galileo was impressed with the regularity of its motion as it swung backwards and forwards , and was led to imagine that ...
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... attention to acquiring a knowledge of the facts and details associated with the study of the science . In the attainment of this he had to depend upon his own exertions and the assistance derived from astronomical books ; for at this ...
... attention to acquiring a knowledge of the facts and details associated with the study of the science . In the attainment of this he had to depend upon his own exertions and the assistance derived from astronomical books ; for at this ...
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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