The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 323 sider |
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... written histories of popular men , kingdoms , sciences , & c . arranged and edited by able writers , and drawn entirely from the most correct and accredited authorities . It is , as it professes to be , a Family Library , from which ...
... written histories of popular men , kingdoms , sciences , & c . arranged and edited by able writers , and drawn entirely from the most correct and accredited authorities . It is , as it professes to be , a Family Library , from which ...
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... writing verses . His own room was furnished with pictures drawn , coloured , and framed by himself , sometimes from ... written by Sir Isaac , a circumstance which is the more probable , as he himself assured Mr. Conduit , with some ex ...
... writing verses . His own room was furnished with pictures drawn , coloured , and framed by himself , sometimes from ... written by Sir Isaac , a circumstance which is the more probable , as he himself assured Mr. Conduit , with some ex ...
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... written memorandum of Newton him- self , that he purchased a prism at Cambridge in 1664 , yet he does not appear to have made any use of it , as he informs us that it was in 1666 that he " pro- * See Newton's Letter to the Abbe Conti ...
... written memorandum of Newton him- self , that he purchased a prism at Cambridge in 1664 , yet he does not appear to have made any use of it , as he informs us that it was in 1666 that he " pro- * See Newton's Letter to the Abbe Conti ...
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... written on the 18th January , 1671-2 , he announces his optical discoveries in the following remarkable manner : " I desire that in your next letter you would inform me for what time the So- ciety continue their weekly meetings ...
... written on the 18th January , 1671-2 , he announces his optical discoveries in the following remarkable manner : " I desire that in your next letter you would inform me for what time the So- ciety continue their weekly meetings ...
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... written in opposition to his views . The first of these was by a Jesuit named Ignatius Pardies , Professor of Mathematics at Cler- mont , who pretended that the elongation of the sun's image arose from the inequal incidence of the dif ...
... written in opposition to his views . The first of these was by a Jesuit named Ignatius Pardies , Professor of Mathematics at Cler- mont , who pretended that the elongation of the sun's image arose from the inequal incidence of the dif ...
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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.