Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Work, Volume 6Thomas Edward Finegan John C. Winston Company, 1922 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 12 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 17 - Rochester, in 1608 ; became president of his college and king's chaplain, and in 1617 accompanied James I to Scotland, where he attempted to enforce Episcopacy, with no success. After the accession of Charles I Laud was translated to the see of Bath and Wells, and in 1628 to that of London, while his influence seemed to increase. In 1630 he was elected chancellor of the University of Oxford, which he enriched with a valuable collection of manuscripts, establishing also a professorship of Arabic....
Page 18 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 42 - He was an able ruler, and had also a reputation as an author. Some of his works have come down to us, including speeches, letters, and satirical pieces ; the latter are distinguished for wit and humor. He wrote also a work against the Christian religion, of which we have yet some extracts.