The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 323 sider |
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... objects to which general education is at present directed , that sufficient time cannot be allowed , in most ... object has ben attained , where the taste has been formed , and the ab of occasional recurrence to the Classics has ...
... objects to which general education is at present directed , that sufficient time cannot be allowed , in most ... object has ben attained , where the taste has been formed , and the ab of occasional recurrence to the Classics has ...
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... objects to my knowing view . Earth's crown , thus at my feet I can disdain , Which heavy is , and at the best but vain . But now a crown of thorns I gladly greet , Sharp is this crown , but not so sharp as sweet ; The crown of glory ...
... objects to my knowing view . Earth's crown , thus at my feet I can disdain , Which heavy is , and at the best but vain . But now a crown of thorns I gladly greet , Sharp is this crown , but not so sharp as sweet ; The crown of glory ...
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... object - glass of a telescope directed to the sun , and MM an eye - glass through which the eye at E sees magnified the image or picture of the sun formed by LL , it cannot see distinctly all the different images between R and V. If it ...
... object - glass of a telescope directed to the sun , and MM an eye - glass through which the eye at E sees magnified the image or picture of the sun formed by LL , it cannot see distinctly all the different images between R and V. If it ...
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... objects less distinct than a six - feet tube , though he still thought it would be equal to a three or four feet tube ... object - glass , to transmit the light to an eye - glass placed behind it , I had thence an occasion of considering ...
... objects less distinct than a six - feet tube , though he still thought it would be equal to a three or four feet tube ... object - glass , to transmit the light to an eye - glass placed behind it , I had thence an occasion of considering ...
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... object - glass , executed by a London artist , and having proposed in 1678 to sub- stitute glass reflectors in place of metallic specula , he tried to make a reflecting telescope on this principle four feet long , and with a magnifying ...
... object - glass , executed by a London artist , and having proposed in 1678 to sub- stitute glass reflectors in place of metallic specula , he tried to make a reflecting telescope on this principle four feet long , and with a magnifying ...
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Side 300 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 251 - He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
Side 78 - ... that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is constant for refraction in the same medium, was effected by Snell and Descartes.
Side 139 - I only hint at present to such as have ability and opportunity of prosecuting this inquiry, and are not wanting of industry for observing and calculating, wishing heartily such may be found, having myself many other things in hand, which I would first complete, and therefore cannot so well attend it. But this I...
Side 248 - For understanding the prophecies, we are, in the first place, to acquaint ourselves with the figurative language of the prophets. This language is taken from the analogy between the world natural and an empire or kingdom considered as a world politic.
Side 303 - he had a very lively and piercing eye, a comely and gracious aspect, with a fine head of hair as white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was off was a venerable sight.
Side 149 - 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 256 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Side 149 - I must again beg you," says he, "not to let your resentments run so high as to deprive us of your third book, wherein your applications of your mathematical doctrine to the theory of comets, and several curious experiments which, as I guess by what you write ought to compose it, will undoubtedly render it acceptable to those who will call themselves philosophers without mathematics, which are much the greater number.
Side 221 - I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business.