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... the domestic compact ; how he exercises his lofty powers of invention and
discovery ; how he comports himself in the arena of intellectual strife ; and in what
sentiments , and with what aspirations he quits the world which he has adorned .
... the domestic compact ; how he exercises his lofty powers of invention and
discovery ; how he comports himself in the arena of intellectual strife ; and in what
sentiments , and with what aspirations he quits the world which he has adorned .
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The history of science affords many examples where the young aspirant had
been early initiated into her mysteries , and had even exercised his powers of
invention and discovery before he was admitted within the walls of a college ; but
he ...
The history of science affords many examples where the young aspirant had
been early initiated into her mysteries , and had even exercised his powers of
invention and discovery before he was admitted within the walls of a college ; but
he ...
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His attention was first turned to the study of mathematics by a desire to inquire
into the truth of judicial astrology ; and he is said to have discovered the folly of
that study by erecting a figure with the aid of one or two of the problems of Euclid .
His attention was first turned to the study of mathematics by a desire to inquire
into the truth of judicial astrology ; and he is said to have discovered the folly of
that study by erecting a figure with the aid of one or two of the problems of Euclid .
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Had he discovered the composition of light in 1664 or 1665 , it is not likely that he
would have withheld it , not only from the Royal Society , but from his own friends
at Cambridge till the year 1671 . His friend and tutor , Dr . Barrow , was made ...
Had he discovered the composition of light in 1664 or 1665 , it is not likely that he
would have withheld it , not only from the Royal Society , but from his own friends
at Cambridge till the year 1671 . His friend and tutor , Dr . Barrow , was made ...
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These opinions savour so little of genuine philosophy that they must have
attracted the observation of Newton , and had he discovered at that time that
white was a mixture of all the colours , and black a privation of them all , he could
not have ...
These opinions savour so little of genuine philosophy that they must have
attracted the observation of Newton , and had he discovered at that time that
white was a mixture of all the colours , and black a privation of them all , he could
not have ...
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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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