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.
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 …
- Christiaan Huygens
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.
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.
The world is my country. Science my religion. - Christiaan Huygens
The world is my country. Science my religion.
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…
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…
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses… - Christiaan Huygens
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses…
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. - Christiaan Huygens
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searc… - Christiaan Huygens
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searc…
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