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Galilei, Galileo, Mechanics , 1665 |
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40 0 0 29 1 GALILEUS, HIS MECHANICKS: OF THE BENEFIT DERIVED FROM THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICKS, AND FROM ITS INSTRUMENTS. I judged it extreamly neceſſary, before our deſcending to the Speculation of Mecha- nick Inſtruments, to conſider how I might, as it were, ſet before your eyes in a gene- ral Diſcourſe, the many benefits that are derived from the ſaid Inſtruments: and this I have thought my ſelf the more ob- liged to do, for that (if I am not miſtaken) I have ſeen the generality of Mechaniti- ans deceive themſelves in going about to apply Machines to many operations of their own nature impoſſible; by the ſucceſſe where- of they have been diſappointed, and others likewiſe fruſtrate of the hope which they had conceived upon the promiſe of thoſe pre- ſumptuous undertakers: of which miſtakes I think I have found the principall cauſe to be the belief and conſtant opinion theſe |
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