This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...a classic and favorite study throughout the British Empire. In 1536 Henry VIII. instituted a professorship of Greek at Cambridge, and invited Erasmus to England, in order to work with John Cheke to create a taste for that branch of knowledge. Cheke became Greek professor at Cambridge, 1540. About the same time the king ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...a classic and favorite study throughout the British Empire. In 1536 Henry VIII. instituted a professorship of Greek at Cambridge, and invited Erasmus to England, in order to work with John Cheke to create a taste for that branch of knowledge. Cheke became Greek professor at Cambridge, 1540. About the same time the king founded a professorship of Hebrew in the same university. Thenceforth the English language could derive ancient linguistic lore from original sources. No doubt, many of the Greek and Hebrew roots, now in the English idiom, owe their introduction to that period. According to Barrington, anatomy was favored by a law, 1540, allowing the united Companies of Barbers and Surgeons yearly the bodies of four criminals to dissect. This science formed a streamlet that carried its tribute of scientific terms into the English idiom. Branching into osteology, myology, physiology, phrenology, comparative anatomy, &c, it has ever since widened its domain and increased the English vocabulary. Thus has language been enriched from century to century, from year to year, by tributaries of new sciences, devices, inventions, and discoveries. We must not omit here a work that made an epoch in science: Copernicus' "De Orbium Celestium Revolutionibus" (Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies), written about 1530, and printed 1543. In this sublime work the Polish sage confirms the idea of Pythagoras, who, 500 B.C., taught that the sun is the center of the solar system, and the theory of Philolaus, who, 350 B.C., claims that the earth, besides its revolution around the sun, has a rotation on its own axis. Copernicus also suggested, in his treatise on the solar system, that gravitation is not a central tendency, but an attraction common to matter, anil probably...
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