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Manny
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Képler expliqua la disposition du système solaire par les lois de l'harmonie musicale. Il est affligeant pour l'ésprit humain, de voir ce grand homme, même dans ses derniers ouvrages, se complaire avec délices dans ces chimériques spéculations, et les regarder comme l'âme et la vie de l'astronomie.
— Dec 27, 2012 10:31PM
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Manny
is on page 480 of 576
Il est singulier qu'à la vue de cette foule de systèmes qui se combattaient sans rien apprendre, la réflexion très simple, que le seul moyen de connaître la nature est de l'interroger par l'éxperience, ait échappé à tant de philosophes dont plusieurs étaient doués d'un rare génie.
— Dec 27, 2012 12:06AM
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Manny
is on page 430 of 576
Laplace is just stunning when he's talking about gravity, but as soon as he gets off his home territory the quality degrades. He's now arguing that refraction and capillary effects are both aspects of the same thing...
— Dec 26, 2012 03:37AM
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Manny
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Laplace ingeniously shows that the Earth cannot be homogeneous by considering its degree of ellipticity and the force of gravity at different points on its surface, and then does the same for Jupiter. It's amazing how often you can measure things which seem to be utterly inaccessible to our senses just by sitting and thinking carefully.
— Dec 25, 2012 01:22PM
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Manny
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The mechanics of Jupiter's satellites and their complex mutual attractions. Laplace loves the Solar System as much as Dawkins loves living creatures, and wants you to feel the same way. It's really very cute.
— Dec 25, 2012 11:45AM
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Manny
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Laplace triumphantly explains how his revised model of lunar motion can explain eclipse data going back to the Chaldeans (!) This book takes a while to warm up, but, now that it has, it's worth all the trouble I had getting here.
— Dec 23, 2012 07:14PM
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Manny
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Ces variations de l'orbe terrestre ont fait coïncider le perigée du soleil, avec l'équinoxe de printemps, à une epoque à laquelle on peu remonter par l'analyse, et que je trouve anterieure à notre ère, de 4089 ans. Il est remarquable que cet èpoque soit à peu près celle où le plupart des chronologistes placent la création du monde.
Irony? But Laplace doesn't appear to do irony... or have I misjudged him?
— Dec 22, 2012 01:52PM
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Irony? But Laplace doesn't appear to do irony... or have I misjudged him?
Manny
is on page 240 of 576
I may have harbored lingering doubts about whether the Earth really rotated on its axis and went round the Sun, but no longer. The evidence, which Laplace presents in great detail, is indeed overwhelming.
Take that, Catholic church! When he edited this edition, Copernicus and Galileo were still on the Index - they came off about 10 years later.
— Dec 21, 2012 06:10AM
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Take that, Catholic church! When he edited this edition, Copernicus and Galileo were still on the Index - they came off about 10 years later.
Manny
is on page 105 of 576
Un peuple, qui se donnerait un semblable système, réunirait à l'avantage d'en recueillir les premiers fruits, celui de voir son exemple suivi par les autres peuples dont il deviendrait ainsi le bienfaiteur ; car l'empire lent mais irrésistible de la raison, l'emporte à la longue, sur les jalousies nationales, et surmonte tous les obstacles qui s'opposent au bien généralement senti.
— Dec 19, 2012 11:17AM
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Manny
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According to Hahn, Laplace was so annoyed when Piazzi failed to tell him immediately about the 1801 discovery of Ceres that for a long time he omitted all mention of asteroids in his published works. This is, however, the 1835 edition, and he has apparently relented sufficiently to include a very grumpy half page on the subject.
— Dec 11, 2012 12:53AM
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Manny
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Il est bien important, lorsque les impressions sont aussi légères, de se garantir des effets de l'imagination qui peut avoir sur elles une grande influence ; car alors les images intérieures qu'elle fait naître, modifient et transforment souvent celles que produit la vue des objets.
— Dec 09, 2012 01:00PM
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Manny
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Laplace is fascinated by the fact that every culture he know of has the concept of a seven-day week, and considers this to be of great significance. I must find out what has been discovered since 1835!
— Dec 08, 2012 10:46AM
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Manny
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La surface de la terre n'est donc pas ce qu'elle nous semble, un plan sur lequel la voûte céleste est appuyée. On verra dans la suite, l'astronomie souvent occupée à corriger de semblables illusions, et à reconnaître les objets réels dans leur trompeuses apparences.
— Dec 08, 2012 01:22AM
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