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 132
Hislife is one of the most extraordinary character, attendedwith episodes which convulsed the world, and which areyet the subject of a hot contention as to the truth orfalsity of charges made against the church which thensubstantially dominated the world. Some of the salientincidents of his life,… … GALILEO.i^Fmn a painting by Bamsay, in Tiinity College, Cambndge.) (127) BIETH OF GALILEO. 129 the progress made by the sixteenth century. His firstdiscovery was of the isochronism of the penduhim; thatis, that it moves through differing arcs in the same time.This was followed by the invention of…
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