The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 130
he human race began to be taught that the earth,instead of being the centre around which the sun, moon,and stars revolved, is itself but a humble satellite ofwhich the sun is the centre. It was the sixteenthwhich first gave the spinning-wheel practical shape; inwhich a submarine vessel was… … CHAPTEE X. GALILEO. PEEHAPS the grandest event of the sixteenth cen-tury was the birth of Galileo Gahlei, usuallyknown simply as Galileo. He was born in Florence,Italy, in February, 1564, on the same day that a manalmost equally renowned, Michael Angelo Buonarottidied in Eome. It might almost seem…
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