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like many other philosophers who have greatly extended our knowledge of nature. Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research To facilitate his practical work. We find that in 1599 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try the devices which were forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain. Among the earliest of his inventions appears to have been the thermometer which he constructed in 1602. No doubt this apparatus, in its primitive form differed in some respects from the contrivance we call by the same name Galileo at first employed water as the agent. Its expansion was the basis of the measure of temperature. Call me Ishmael, some years ago. Never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation, whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly november in my soul, whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off. Then I accounted high time to get to see as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish, Cato throws himself upon his sword. I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this, if they but knew it. Almost all men in their degree sometime or other cherish. Very nearly the same feeling towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city. Of the Manhattan toes, belted round by wharves as indian isles, by coral reef. Commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left the streets. Take you water word. It's extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves and cooled by breezes which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water geysers there once upon a time, in a magical kingdom, surrounded by a vast valley. There lived a young Squire who dreamed of becoming a knight every day. The Squire carried out his daily duties patiently awaiting the day he could prove his worth, and pass into knighthood.
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