The Popes and Science: The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time

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Fordham University Press, 1908 - 431 pages

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Page 423 - ... an ounce. Other medicines, however, which in consequence of the special conditions required for their preparation4 or for any other reason the apothecary has to have in stock for more than a year, he may charge for at the rate of six tarrenes an ounce. Stations for the preparation of medicines may not be located anywhere, but only in certain communities in the Kingdom, as we prescribe below. Title 47 : In every province of our Kingdom which is under our legal authority, we decree that two prudent...
Page 398 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 394 - Italy, he had arrived at the conclusion that " the Pope and the College of Cardinals had rather the best of it." In our own time M. Bertrand, the perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, declared that " the great lesson for those who would wish to oppose reason with violence was clearly to be read in Galileo's story, and the scandal of his condemnation was brought about without any profound sorrow to Galileo himself; and his long life, considered as a whole, must be looked upon as the...
Page 391 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Page 46 - Bologna, she became most valuable to Mondino because she would cleanse most skilfully the smallest vein, the arteries, all ramifications of the vessels, without lacerating or dividing them ; and to prepare them for demonstration she would fill them with various colored liquids, which, after having been driven into the vessels, would harden without destroying the vessels. Again, she would paint these same vessels to their minute branches so perfectly and color them so naturally that, added to the...
Page 295 - ... all that is here set down is the result of our own experience, or has been borrowed from authors, whom we know to have written what their personal experience has confirmed: for in these matters experience alone can give certainty.
Page 317 - Cofnioyraphicus de Natura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have found in it considerations on the dependence of temperature concurrently on latitude and elevation, and on the effect of different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, says, ' whether we consider him as a theologian or a philosopher.
Page 353 - There, said they, is mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, the innumerable company of Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect.
Page 356 - It would almost seem as if this fiction had its origin in the poet's recollection of that peculiar and rare phosphorescent condition of the ocean, when luminous points appear to rise from the breaking waves, and spreading themselves over the surface of the waters, convert the liquid plain into a moving sea of sparkling stars.
Page 24 - Great additions have of late been made to our knowledge of the past ; the long conspiracy against the revelation of truth has gradually given way, and competing historians all over the civilized world have been zealous to take advantage of the change.

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