The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 323 páginas |
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... Method of finding the Longitude ... CHAPTER XV . Respect in which Newton was held at the Court of George I .-- The Princess of Wales delighted with his Conversation - Leibnitz en- deavours to prejudice the Princess against Sir Isaac and ...
... Method of finding the Longitude ... CHAPTER XV . Respect in which Newton was held at the Court of George I .-- The Princess of Wales delighted with his Conversation - Leibnitz en- deavours to prejudice the Princess against Sir Isaac and ...
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... Method of Investigation similar to that used by Galileo- Error in ascribing his Discoveries to the Use of the Methods recommended by Lord Bacon - The Pretensions of the Baconian Philosophy examined - Sir Isaac Newton's Social Character ...
... Method of Investigation similar to that used by Galileo- Error in ascribing his Discoveries to the Use of the Methods recommended by Lord Bacon - The Pretensions of the Baconian Philosophy examined - Sir Isaac Newton's Social Character ...
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... method of fluxions , and he had brought it to such a state in the beginning of 1669 , that he permitted Dr. Barrow to communicate it to Mr. Collins on the 20th of June in that year . Although we have already mentioned , on the au ...
... method of fluxions , and he had brought it to such a state in the beginning of 1669 , that he permitted Dr. Barrow to communicate it to Mr. Collins on the 20th of June in that year . Although we have already mentioned , on the au ...
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... method of polish- ing , proper for metals , by which , as he conceived , " the figure would be corrected to the last , " he began to put this method to the test of experiment . At this time he was acquainted with the proposal of Mr ...
... method of polish- ing , proper for metals , by which , as he conceived , " the figure would be corrected to the last , " he began to put this method to the test of experiment . At this time he was acquainted with the proposal of Mr ...
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... method , which would perform as well as a sixty or a hundred feet telescope made in the common way ; and that if a common refracting telescope could be made of the " purest glass exqui- sitely polished , with the best figure that any ...
... method , which would perform as well as a sixty or a hundred feet telescope made in the common way ; and that if a common refracting telescope could be made of the " purest glass exqui- sitely polished , with the best figure that any ...
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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.