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Side 28
... views on the subject , and de- tected the errors in those of the French philosopher . This , however , does not seem to have been the case . Had he discovered the composition of light in 1664 or 1665 , it is not likely that he would ...
... views on the subject , and de- tected the errors in those of the French philosopher . This , however , does not seem to have been the case . Had he discovered the composition of light in 1664 or 1665 , it is not likely that he would ...
Side 54
... 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 ferent rays on the first face ...
... 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 ferent rays on the first face ...
Side 60
... views , and , finding that their author was disposed to consider that element as consisting of material par- ticles , he did not scruple to reject doctrines which he believed to be incompatible with truth . Dr. Hooke was too accurate an ...
... views , and , finding that their author was disposed to consider that element as consisting of material par- ticles , he did not scruple to reject doctrines which he believed to be incompatible with truth . Dr. Hooke was too accurate an ...
Side 64
... views , seems to have been impressed upon his mind with all the force of an axiom . * Even the shortness of the spectrum observed by Lucas did not rouse him to further inquiry ; and when , under the influence of this blind conviction he ...
... views , seems to have been impressed upon his mind with all the force of an axiom . * Even the shortness of the spectrum observed by Lucas did not rouse him to further inquiry ; and when , under the influence of this blind conviction he ...
Side 73
... views may , perhaps , be more clearly under- stood by supposing that a certain portion of white light is actually formed at every point of the spec- trum by the union of the requisite number of the three coloured rays that exist at any ...
... views may , perhaps , be more clearly under- stood by supposing that a certain portion of white light is actually formed at every point of the spec- trum by the union of the requisite number of the three coloured rays that exist at any ...
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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 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 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 217 - I could not have believed what you tell me of yourself, had I had it from any body else. And though I cannot but be mightily troubled that you should have had so many wrong and unjust thoughts of me...
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 216 - I desire you to forgive me this uncharitableness. For I am now satisfied that what you have done is just, and I beg your pardon for my having hard thoughts of you for it, and for representing that you struck at the root of morality, in a principle you laid down in your book of ideas, and designed to pursue in another book, and that I took you for a Hobbist.
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 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 320 - I WAS on Sunday night, the 7th of March, 1724-5, at Kensington with Sir Isaac Newton, in his lodgings, just after he was come out of a fit of the gout, which he had had in both his feet, for the first time, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was better after it, and his head clearer, and memory stronger than I had known them for some time.
Side 282 - I found that, as often as I went into the dark, and intended my mind upon them, as when a man looks earnestly to see anything which is difficult to be seen, I could make the phantasm return without looking any more upon the sun; and the oftener I made it return, the more easily I could make it return again.