Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volum 1T. Constable and Company, 1855 - 1042 sider |
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Side xii
... length than I could have wished , to defend the illustrious subject of this work against a system of calumny and misrepresentation unexampled in the history of science . When I published my Life of Newton in 1831 , I had not seen his ...
... length than I could have wished , to defend the illustrious subject of this work against a system of calumny and misrepresentation unexampled in the history of science . When I published my Life of Newton in 1831 , I had not seen his ...
Side xviii
... length of the Spectra to be the same in all Bodies — And in despairing of the Improvement of Refracting Telescopes -In his Controversy with Lucas he was on the eve of discovering the differ- ent dispersive Powers of Bodies - Mr ...
... length of the Spectra to be the same in all Bodies — And in despairing of the Improvement of Refracting Telescopes -In his Controversy with Lucas he was on the eve of discovering the differ- ent dispersive Powers of Bodies - Mr ...
Side 16
... length of the leap in both directions , and comparing it with the length to which he could jump in a perfectly calm day , he was enabled to compute the force of the storm . Sir Isaac added , that when his companions seemed surprised at ...
... length of the leap in both directions , and comparing it with the length to which he could jump in a perfectly calm day , he was enabled to compute the force of the storm . Sir Isaac added , that when his companions seemed surprised at ...
Side 33
... length of one - sixth or one- seventh of an inch , " it magnified about forty times in diameter , " which he believed was more than any six feet refracting telescope could do with distinctness . Owing to the badness of the materials ...
... length of one - sixth or one- seventh of an inch , " it magnified about forty times in diameter , " which he believed was more than any six feet refracting telescope could do with distinctness . Owing to the badness of the materials ...
Side 40
... length of the spectrum and its breadth , " excited him to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed . He could scarcely think that the various thickness of the glass , or the termination with shadow or ...
... length of the spectrum and its breadth , " excited him to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed . He could scarcely think that the various thickness of the glass , or the termination with shadow or ...
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Side 142 - If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Side 148 - Are not all hypotheses erroneous in which light is supposed to consist in pression or motion propagated through a fluid medium? If it consisted in pression or motion, propagated either in an instant, or in time, it would bend into the shadow.
Side 72 - I am purposing them to be considered of and examined on account of a philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being, in my judgment, the oddest if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Side 267 - Harmonics ; what I had promised my friends in the title of this book, which I named before I was sure of my discovery ; what, sixteen years ago, I urged as a thing to be sought ; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which...
Side 201 - Are not the rays of light in passing by the edges and sides of bodies bent several times backWards and forwards with a motion like that of an eel? And do not the three fringes of light above mentioned arise from three such bendings ?" The idea thus indistinctly thrown out in the preceding queries has been ingeniously interpreted by Mr.
Side 75 - Hence, therefore, it comes to pass, that whiteness is the usual colour of light; for light is a confused aggregate of rays indued with all sorts of colours, as they are promiscuously darted from the various parts of luminous bodies.
Side 441 - The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
Side 238 - ... fancy, which I must confess is too hard a knot for me to untie. To place this effect in a constant motion is hard, because the sun ought then to appear perpetually It seems rather to consist in a disposition of the sensorium to move the imagination strongly, and to be easily moved both by the imagination and by the light as often as bright objects are looked upon.
Side 442 - Now is not this very fine ? Mathematicians, that find out, settle, and do all the business, must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges ; and another, that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things, must carry away all the invention, as well of those that were to follow him, as of those that went before.
Side 96 - I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr Linus' business I will resolutely bid adieu to it eternally, except what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it...