Black Leather Barbarians Book

THE Publishers avail themselves of this opportu. nity to state to their patrons and friends, that they " hav~, during the past year, made increased efforts to render tho Family Library, what they fully: in. tend it shall be, the most extensive and valuable coL lection of popular literature thai has appeared in any, country. Within the time menti~ned they have added to the series no less than thirty/new volumes, many of which have been written expressly fot this object by our best authors, while the rest have been edited with the ubnost care, to render them in all respects unexceptionable. The names of Irving, Renwick, Pottet', Bryant, ~allecli, Hale, Up ... ham, Mackenzie, and Dana will be foulld among tho recent American contributors, as are those of Paul. ding, Bush, Griscom, Thatcher, &c., among those of older date; and when with these we mention Scott, Southey, Brewster, Milman, Abercrombie, f.Iontgomery, Dick, Russell,. James, Turner, Keight ..Table of Contents CONTENTS; LIFE OF GALILEO; CHAPTER 1; Peculiar Interest attached to his Life-His Birth-His ear1y; Studies-His Pusion for Mathematics-His 'Vork on the; Hydrostatic Balance-Appointed Lecturer on Mathematics; at Pisa-His Antipathy to the Philosophy of AristotleHis; Contentions with the Aristotelians-Chosen Professor; of Mathematics in Padua-Adopt~ the Copernican System,; but still teaches the Ptolemaic Doctrine-lIis alarming 111·; nesa-He observes the new Star in 1604-His magncti ; cal Experiments Page 13; CHAPTER II; Cosmo,Grand~Duke of Tuscany, invites Galileo to PisaGaJileo; visits Venice in 1~09, where he first hears of the; Tclescope-He invents 8Dd constructs one, which excite~; a great Sensation-Discovers MOllntaioB in the Moont and; Forty Stars in the PlclBdes-Discovers J upiterts Satellites; O-Etrect of this Discovery on Kepler-Manner in;Read More