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... Researches of Newton - His Experiments on Refraction - His Conjecture
respecting the Inflammability of the Diamond - His Law of Double Refraction - His
Observations on the Polarization of Light - - Newton ' s Theory of Light - His “
Optics " ...
... Researches of Newton - His Experiments on Refraction - His Conjecture
respecting the Inflammability of the Diamond - His Law of Double Refraction - His
Observations on the Polarization of Light - - Newton ' s Theory of Light - His “
Optics " ...
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Dr . Wallis ' s Arithmetic of Infinites , Saunderson ' s Logic , and the Optics of
Kepler were among the books which he had studied with care . On these works
he wrote comments during their perusal ; * Pemberton ' s View of Sir Isaac
Newton ' s ...
Dr . Wallis ' s Arithmetic of Infinites , Saunderson ' s Logic , and the Optics of
Kepler were among the books which he had studied with care . On these works
he wrote comments during their perusal ; * Pemberton ' s View of Sir Isaac
Newton ' s ...
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During that year he had applied himself to the grinding of “ optic glasses , of other
figures than spherical , ” and having , no doubt , experienced the impracticability
of executing such lenses , the idea of examining the phenomena of colour was ...
During that year he had applied himself to the grinding of “ optic glasses , of other
figures than spherical , ” and having , no doubt , experienced the impracticability
of executing such lenses , the idea of examining the phenomena of colour was ...
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... the Mind of Newton . ALTHOUGH Newton delivered a course of lectures on
optics in the University of Cambridge in the years 1669 , 1670 , and 1671 ,
containing his principal discoveries relative to the different refrangibility of light ,
yet it is ...
... the Mind of Newton . ALTHOUGH Newton delivered a course of lectures on
optics in the University of Cambridge in the years 1669 , 1670 , and 1671 ,
containing his principal discoveries relative to the different refrangibility of light ,
yet it is ...
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... severity , but announced that he possessed an infallible method of perfecting
all kinds of optical instruments , so that " whatever almost hath been in notion and
imagination , or desired in optics , may be performed with great facility and truth .
... severity , but announced that he possessed an infallible method of perfecting
all kinds of optical instruments , so that " whatever almost hath been in notion and
imagination , or desired in optics , may be performed with great facility and truth .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Life of Sir Isaac Newton Tema 26 de Harper's family library |
| Autor | Sir David Brewster |
| Editor | J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 323 páginas |
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