Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable p… - Christiaan Huygens
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable p…
- Christiaan Huygens
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we … - Christiaan Huygens
We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we …
The world is my country. Science my religion. - Christiaan Huygens
The world is my country. Science my religion.
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Spe… - Christiaan Huygens
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Spe…
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. - Christiaan Huygens
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation. - Christiaan Huygens
It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.
I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably. - Christiaan Huygens
I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.
Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful … - Christiaan Huygens
Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful …
I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction. - Christiaan Huygens
I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.
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