| John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - Astronomers - 1832 - 314 pages
...Sizzi, a Florentine astronomer, took the matter up in a somewhat different strain from Kepler. — " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...and nourish it, which are the principal parts of the pixft(, (or little world) ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, as in... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...Sizzi, a Florentine astronomer, took the matter up in a somewhat different strain from Kepler.* — " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...and nourish it, which are the principal parts of the pux^xct/tes (or little world) ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...vSizzi, a Florentine astronomer, took the matter up in a somewhat different strain from Kepler.*— " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...and nourish it, which are the principal parts of the fiixpxiTfus (or little world) ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a- mouth ; so in the heavens,... | |
| American literature - 1833 - 208 pages
...his own invention, the telescope. It is the language of Francesco Lizzi, a Florentine astronomer. " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...and nourish it, which are the principal parts of the microcosm ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, there... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...Sizzi, a Florentine astronomer, took the matter up in a somewhat different strain from Kepler.* — " There are seven windows given to animals in the, domicile...and nourish it, which are the principal parts of the /tixeaxarpos (or little world) ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens,... | |
| Church history - 1839 - 868 pages
...astronomer of no mean note, and a townsman of Galileo's, thus gravely and impressively delivered himself: " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and nourish it ; which windows are the principal part... | |
| Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...that there can be only seven planets, is a specimen of the logic with which Galileo was assailed. " There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and to nourish it ; which windows are the principal... | |
| John Pringle Nichol - Astronomy - 1842 - 278 pages
...are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body, to enlighten, to warm, and nourish it j which windows are the principal parts of the microcosm or little world, two nostrils, two eyes, two... | |
| Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...following is a specimen of the logic with which the great discoverer was opposed : " There are Beven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head, through which the air is admitted to the tabernacle of the body ; which windows are the principal parts of the microcosm, or little world ;... | |
| Thomas Dick - Astronomical instruments - 1845 - 644 pages
...age against the discoveries of Galileo. Sizzi, a Florentine astronomer, reasons in this strain : ' There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile...the tabernacle of the body to enlighten, to warm and to nourish it ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world,... | |
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