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“The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Mercury and Venus ought to show phases like the moon.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“All that Copernicus could suggest on this head was that perhaps the atmosphere might help to carry things forward, and enable them to keep pace with the earth.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“The only answer that Copernicus could give to this was that they might be difficult to see without extra powers of sight, but he ventured to predict that the phases would be seen if ever our powers of vision should be enhanced.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“rushing along its annual course round the sun at the rate of nineteen miles every second.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Archimedes, one of the greatest men of science there has ever been, and the father of physics.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“unless they are at a practically infinite distance. That is the only answer that can be given. It was the tentative answer given by Copernicus. It is the correct answer. Not only from every position of the earth, but from every planet of the solar system, the same constellations are visible, and the stars have the same aspect. The”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Ptolemaic system continued”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“4. That if the earth moved, or even revolved on its own axis, a stone or other dropped body ought to be left far behind.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“In the thirteenth century, however,”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science

“Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then”
― Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science