The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 219
gth, as it marks one of the greatest epochs in the develop-ment, not only of astronomy, but in the whole realm of thought.It concerns that movement at the end of the Dark Ages knownas the Revival of Learning, or Renaissance. This probablybegan in the 15th century, but, in my opinion, the rapid… … PLATE XXXII. Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. Important Epochs in Astronomy 133 other things he had said that a large heavy body would fallfaster than a small light body. Galileo, true scientist as he was,would not take the word of anyone, even Aristotle, for a thingwhen it was in his power to prove or…
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