The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 323 páginas |
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... Locke . Although these works contain much important information respecting the Life of Newton , yet I have been so fortunate as to obtain many new ma- terials of considerable value . To the kindness of Lord Braybrooke I have been indebted.
... Locke . Although these works contain much important information respecting the Life of Newton , yet I have been so fortunate as to obtain many new ma- terials of considerable value . To the kindness of Lord Braybrooke I have been indebted.
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... contained in this ancient system of geometry he regarded as self - evident truths ; and without any preliminary study he made himself master of Descartes's Geometry by his genius and patient application . This neglect of the elementary ...
... contained in this ancient system of geometry he regarded as self - evident truths ; and without any preliminary study he made himself master of Descartes's Geometry by his genius and patient application . This neglect of the elementary ...
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... contained in his Optica Promota , to construct a reflecting telescope with two concave specula , the largest of which had a hole in the middle of the larger speculum , to transmit the light to an eye - glass ; * but he conceived that it ...
... contained in his Optica Promota , to construct a reflecting telescope with two concave specula , the largest of which had a hole in the middle of the larger speculum , to transmit the light to an eye - glass ; * but he conceived that it ...
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... contained the fulfilment of that promise . The telescope was six inches long . It bore an aperture in the large specu- lum something more than an inch , and as the eye- glass was a plano - convex lens , whose focal length was one ...
... contained the fulfilment of that promise . The telescope was six inches long . It bore an aperture in the large specu- lum something more than an inch , and as the eye- glass was a plano - convex lens , whose focal length was one ...
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... contained few individuals of pre - eminent talent capable of appreciating the truth of his discoveries , and of protecting him against the shafts of his envious and ignorant assailants . This eminent body , while they held his labours ...
... contained few individuals of pre - eminent talent capable of appreciating the truth of his discoveries , and of protecting him against the shafts of his envious and ignorant assailants . This eminent body , while they held his labours ...
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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.