 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 392 sider
...dated November z8, 1679." Newton refers to this matter again in a letter to Halley, June zo, 1688: "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - 1977 - 328 sider
...congratulate himself on having been such a sly Odysseus; but then Newton added, as if an afterthought, "The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigous lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. I found it so... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 sider
...exasperation, all the pent-up tension of a year and a half of stupendous and unremitting toil burst out. "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again but... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 sider
...think him a man of a strange unsociable temper. . . . Philosophy [he lamented, with a cry of anguish] is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. He concluded his complaint by threatening to suppress Book III. Since... | |
 | Douglas M. Campbell, John C. Higgins - 1984 - 324 sider
...the publication of the Principia. Writing to Halley on June 20, 1688, he says, "Philosophy [science] is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 sider
...System of the World" as the third book of the Prineipia, Newton explained: "The third I now designe to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with . . . her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again... | |
 | Vladimir Zalmanovich Parton, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Morozov - 1989 - 316 sider
...and Dr. Halley have severally ob8) He writes in one of his letters in June 1686: ". . . The third l now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in l-aw suits as have to do with her. 1 found it so formerly and now l no sooner come near her again but... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 sider
...hardly acceptable in the confines of Trinity College. Given that Newton considered "Philosophy" to be "such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her," the publication of the Principia in 1687 represented a significant... | |
 | Jayant Vishnu Narlikar - 1996 - 236 sider
...acting as the peacemaker in the controversy. Referring to Book HI (to follow Book II), Newton wrote: 'The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as Figure 2-9. If we divide a sphere into tiny hits, each bit will gravitationally attract a particle... | |
 | Tom Logsdon - 1997 - 292 sider
...problem, paid half. The Canadians shelled out the other $5 million. CHAPTER 4 POWERED FLIGHT MANEUVERS Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as to have do with her. — Isaac Newton in a letter to his friend Edmund Hatley, June 20, 1087 In space,... | |
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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. 
