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The writer has , therefore , in this short History , tried to follow that great master ,
Airy , whose pupil he was , and the key to whose character was exactness and
accuracy ; and he recognises that Science is impotent except in her own limited ...
The writer has , therefore , in this short History , tried to follow that great master ,
Airy , whose pupil he was , and the key to whose character was exactness and
accuracy ; and he recognises that Science is impotent except in her own limited ...
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Thus we find scientific men , even in our own time , responsible for the belief that
storms in the Indian Ocean , the fertility of German vines , famines in India , and
high or low Nile - floods in Egypt follow the planetary positions . And , again , the
...
Thus we find scientific men , even in our own time , responsible for the belief that
storms in the Indian Ocean , the fertility of German vines , famines in India , and
high or low Nile - floods in Egypt follow the planetary positions . And , again , the
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Also ( if these two be granted ) it follows that Kepler ' s third law is only another
way of saying that the sun ' s force on different planets ( besides depending as
above on distance ) is proportional to their masses . Having further proved the ,
for ...
Also ( if these two be granted ) it follows that Kepler ' s third law is only another
way of saying that the sun ' s force on different planets ( besides depending as
above on distance ) is proportional to their masses . Having further proved the ,
for ...
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Contents
ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY | 3 |
GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPENOTIONS OF GRAVITY | 46 |
NEWTONS SUCCESSORS HALLEY EULER | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | History of Astronomy The history of science series |
| Author | George Forbes |
| Publisher | Watts, 1921 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 5 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 150 pages |
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