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Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
The Latin texts of Kepler’s letters to Johann Seussius and Philipp Müller (1622–1630) found in Paris by Walther von Dyck, with letters of Kepler’s son-in-law Jacob Bartsch and the Danzig astronomer Peter Crüger on the Rudolphine Tables, the Ephemerides, Kepler’s death and the fate of his papers, from Nova Kepleriana 4 (1927).
34 parts · 69 min read
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Jules Verne
M. Jules Verne shares—in a minor degree, with Shakespeare the gift of being able to form a faithful conception of things he has not seen, and thus to avoid the errors into which so exuberant a fancy as he possesses might well have led him. It is not easy to say whence he derived this gift, for he comes of a family which had belonged to the noblesse de robe at Nantes for many generations; and Jules Verne, who…
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Coughing in Church
A northern newspaper lately contained a computation of the coughs in a congregation in Scotland during divine service, and the figures rose to thousands. Writing on the subject for the perusal of his congregation, Dr. Donald Fraser says:—
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The Museum Nuisance
We again direct attention to the public nuisances, termed “Anatomical Museums,” which congregate in our leading thoroughfares the immoral and depraved. Under the pretext of informing the popular mind on questions of physiological research, they are made so many mediums whereby charlatanry is enabled to successfully pursue a plan of systematic extortion. The least reputable, if one can be more so than another, as…
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Avowed Infidelity
We have certainly never read such a work as the volume now before us, and bearing the above title; it embraces a range of subjects, perhaps never before attempted to be compressed into one volume; as it presumes to present to the eye of the reader in 400 octavo pages, the science of every department of inanimate and animate creation. It begins with the first moment—when the Supreme Ruler of the world struck the…
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
We give the following excellent and thoroughly philosophical article from the December number of this periodical. The strictures on the wild, unphilosophical, and even infidel theories contained in the work entitled Vestiges of Creation, will be appreciated by our readers. That a publication so startling should obtain a factitious notoriety is not wonderful; its popularity in certain quarters is a strong reason for…
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Explanations: a Sequel to “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
So many strong objections had been arrayed against the Vestiges of Creation, that the author was called upon to elucidate and reinforce his argument, or abandon the ground he had taken up. The more candid and equitable of his judges—those who were disposed to try him upon the merits, and independently test the claims of his inquiry, as in fairness it ought to be, as strictly a scientific speculation, regardless of…
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Mercury Extraordinary!
We this week present our readers with Two Full Sheets and a Half of Newspaper matter, including an amount of letter-press unprecedented in the history of the provincial press. Our present day’s Paper contains TEN TIMES the quantity of print, for Sixpence, that it formerly contained when sold at Sevenpence; and we have adopted this temporary enlargement, in order that the advertisements flowing in upon us may not…
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The Edinburgh Review, and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
In the last number of this celebrated periodical, one of the longest reviews that we ever recollect, perhaps the longest, has been given of this much-abused little book; the reviewer, on this occasion, being no less a man than the Magnus Apollo of the geologists, the Reverend Professor Sedgwick. From our own minor Reverend at the Collegiate, up to the Cambridge professor, this work seems to be especially obnoxious…
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Professor Nichol
We publish the following letter readily—and, in doing so, we must take blame to ourselves for a very serious fault. We had attributed to Professor Nichol the authorship of an Atheistical volume, now in general circulation, called Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. For this assertion of ours, we had what we deemed good authority, and, we may add, that in circles which take an interest in such subjects, the…
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
In this small and unpretending volume we have found so many great results of knowledge and reflection, that we cannot too earnestly recommend it to the attention of thoughtful men. It is the first attempt that has been made to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation. An attempt which presupposes learning, extensive and various; but not the large and liberal wisdom, the profound philosophical…
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The Attempt on the Queen's Life
It is the rare fortune of the reigning Monarch that her life is bound up with the most important interests of her people. The Queen is respected and loved for the qualities she has manifested on the throne; but, besides these feelings, there is one of an interest, not dishonoured by the name of selfish, in her life and the continuance of her line. When the tidings of the attempted assassination went forth, the…
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The Bane and the Antidote
In one way or another the Tories always contrive to turn public abuses to their profit. Sometimes the abuse is extremely lucrative in itself, and then they advocate and support it lustily; sometimes the advantage of the abuse is counterbalanced, in their eyes, by the popular excellence of the system which has contracted it, and then they find it more for their interest to employ it as a screen for their attacks upon…
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The Preparations for War in China
The Chinese seem inclined to be very accommodating enemies. Their presumption is one of our best allies. The apprehension was that they would avoid battle, and that our expedition would be unable to make any impression, having no point of resistance on which to operate in so extensive a country. But, instead of this policy, the Chinese have the infatuation of thinking to oppose our expedition with ships built for…
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Election News
TOWER HAMLETS. — The Tories in the borough of the Tower Hamlets are taking measures to contest the next election of a member of Parliament. On Monday evening last, the members of a Tory Association in the district met for the purpose of signing a requisition to Mr G. Robinson to come forward as a candidate for the representation of the borough whenever a vacancy shall occur.
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Dr. Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens.
The form of this admirable work is that of letters to a lady. Its object is to popularize the stupendous wonders that have been discovered in astronomy, (and chiefly by the elder Herschel,) during the present century; and which, enveloped in dry or extraneous matter, have hitherto remained buried amid “the varied and massive collections of our learned societies.” The subjects of the work, are—the form of the…
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Hume's posthumous dialogue on what reason can tell us about God. Cleanthes argues from the design of the world to a divine mind like our own, Demea defends faith and the a priori proof, and the sceptic Philo picks both apart, ending on the problem of evil.
13 parts · 163 min read
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume's recasting of the first book of his Treatise: where our ideas come from, why our expectations from experience rest on custom rather than reason, what necessary connexion and liberty amount to, why testimony can never establish a miracle, and what a mitigated scepticism leaves us with.
12 parts · 244 min read
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NO.XXXII. The Continuation of the Adventures of Roderick Random
HAVING lost my Benefactor, and almost consumed the Remains of his Bounty, I saw myself in Danger of relapsing into my former Necessity, and began to be very uneasy at the Prospect of Bailiffs and Jails;—when one of the Sisterhood, a little stale, advised me to take Lodgings in a Part of the Town where I was unknown, and pass for an Heiress, which might cozen Some Body to be my Husband, who would possibly be able to…
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Tuesday's Post
Hamburgh, (in Germany) Feb 10: They write from Bohemia, that the Cold was so excessive there the 31st ult. and the 1st instant, as to be only two Degrees inferior to that in 1739 and 40: Upwards of forty Persons were frozen to Death by it.
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Of the different Species of Philosophy
Moral Philosophy, or the Science of human Nature, may be treated after two different Manners; each of which has its peculiar Merit, and may contribute to the Entertainment, Instruction, and Reformation of Mankind. The one considers Man chiefly as born for Action; and as influenc’d in his Actions by Taste and Sentiment; pursuing one Object and avoiding another, according to the Value, which these Objects seem to…
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Mail From Holland
The Turkish Preparations in Bosnia and Bulgaria are too notorious not to be observed, and give Umbrage; but the Court is resolved to be moderate, and content itself to enquire peaceably of the Ottoman Porte the Reason for such Preparations; and how it comes to pass, that after having proposed to renew the Treaty of Passarowitz not three Years since, they can resolve, without any visible Occasion, to disturb his…
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Novum Organum
Bacon's new instrument for the sciences, in two books of aphorisms. The first clears the ground: the idols that beset the mind, the faults of the received philosophy, and the grounds for hope in a new method. The second sets out that method, a true induction rising by degrees from tables of instances to the forms of things, worked through on the nature of heat, with the twenty-seven kinds of prerogative instances.
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Don Alexis unto the Reader
They that have known me in time past, or, to speak plainly, have used me familiarly all my lifetime, can perhaps tell how God by his great goodness has made me to be born of a noble house (according to the common, I will not say vain, persuasion of them that establish nobility more in the merits of another man than in our own), and that besides I have always had my pleasures and great plenty of riches, yea, far…
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The Secretes of Alexis of Piemount
The first part of the most popular book of secrets of the sixteenth century, in William Ward's first English translation: six books of remedies, perfumes, confections, cosmetics, colours and dyes, and the working of metals and counterfeit stones, gathered, so the aged Alexis claims, over a lifetime of travel and kept secret until remorse moved him to publish them.
8 parts · 382 min read
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