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234 CHAPTER XVI . Theological Studies of Sir Isaac - Their Importance to
Christianity - - Motives to which they have been ascribed Opinions of Biot Pago
and La Place considered - His Theological Researches begun CONTENTS . 15.
234 CHAPTER XVI . Theological Studies of Sir Isaac - Their Importance to
Christianity - - Motives to which they have been ascribed Opinions of Biot Pago
and La Place considered - His Theological Researches begun CONTENTS . 15.
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Pago and La Place considered - His Theological Researches begun before his
supposed Mental Illness - - The Date of these Works fixed - Letters to Locke - -
Account of his Observations on ProphecyHis Lexicon Propheticum - His Four ...
Pago and La Place considered - His Theological Researches begun before his
supposed Mental Illness - - The Date of these Works fixed - Letters to Locke - -
Account of his Observations on ProphecyHis Lexicon Propheticum - His Four ...
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... and he expressed to Dr . Pemberton his regret that “ he had applied himself to
the works of Descartes , and other algebraic writers , before he had considered
the elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserved .
... and he expressed to Dr . Pemberton his regret that “ he had applied himself to
the works of Descartes , and other algebraic writers , before he had considered
the elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserved .
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In 1669 , when Dr . Barrow had resolved to devote his attention to theology , he
resigned the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics in favour of Newton , who
may now be considered as having entered upon that brilliant career of discovery
...
In 1669 , when Dr . Barrow had resolved to devote his attention to theology , he
resigned the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics in favour of Newton , who
may now be considered as having entered upon that brilliant career of discovery
...
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These difficulties , however , appeared to him very great , and he even thought
them insuperable when he considered that , as any irregularity in a reflecting
surface makes the rays deviate five or six times more from their true path than
similar ...
These difficulties , however , appeared to him very great , and he even thought
them insuperable when he considered that , as any irregularity in a reflecting
surface makes the rays deviate five or six times more from their true path than
similar ...
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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.
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| 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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