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D . , F . R . S . COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME New = Pork : J . & J . HARPER , 82
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ITAL E CHILOS The Birthplace of Newton . NEW - YORK : TRINTED AND
PUBLISITED BY J . & J . HARPER , No . 82 CLIFF - STREKT . TO THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE LORD BRAYBROOK E . The kindness. 1831 . Harper ' s
Stereotype Edition .
ITAL E CHILOS The Birthplace of Newton . NEW - YORK : TRINTED AND
PUBLISITED BY J . & J . HARPER , No . 82 CLIFF - STREKT . TO THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE LORD BRAYBROOK E . The kindness. 1831 . Harper ' s
Stereotype Edition .
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In drawing up this volume , I have obtained much assistance from the account of
Sir Isaac Newton in the Biographia Britannica ; from the letters to Oldenburg , and
other papers in Bishop Horsley ' s edition of his works ; from Turnor ' s ...
In drawing up this volume , I have obtained much assistance from the account of
Sir Isaac Newton in the Biographia Britannica ; from the letters to Oldenburg , and
other papers in Bishop Horsley ' s edition of his works ; from Turnor ' s ...
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... 1701 - and President of the Royal Society in 1703 - Queen Anne confers upon
him the Honour of Knighthood in 1705 - Second Edition of the Principia , edited
by Cotes - His Conduct respecting Mr . Ditton ' s Method of finding the Longitude .
... 1701 - and President of the Royal Society in 1703 - Queen Anne confers upon
him the Honour of Knighthood in 1705 - Second Edition of the Principia , edited
by Cotes - His Conduct respecting Mr . Ditton ' s Method of finding the Longitude .
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His Acquaintance with Dr . Pemberton - Who edits the Third Edition of the
Principia - His first Attack of ill Health - His Recovery - - He is taken ill in
consequence of attending the Royal SocietyHis Death on the 20th March , 1727 -
His Body lies ...
His Acquaintance with Dr . Pemberton - Who edits the Third Edition of the
Principia - His first Attack of ill Health - His Recovery - - He is taken ill in
consequence of attending the Royal SocietyHis Death on the 20th March , 1727 -
His Body lies ...
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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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