The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 323 páginas |
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... says , " if you desire your son , though no great scholar . to read and reflect , it is your duty to place in his hands the best translations of the best Classical Authors . " A Biographical Sketch will be prefixed to each author ; and ...
... says , " if you desire your son , though no great scholar . to read and reflect , it is your duty to place in his hands the best translations of the best Classical Authors . " A Biographical Sketch will be prefixed to each author ; and ...
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... say that when he was born he was so little that they might have put him into a quart mug . † In Leicestershire , and about three miles south - east of Woolsthorpe . somewhat enlarged the limited income upon which she had to BIRTH .
... say that when he was born he was so little that they might have put him into a quart mug . † In Leicestershire , and about three miles south - east of Woolsthorpe . somewhat enlarged the limited income upon which she had to BIRTH .
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... says Dr. Stukely , " when I was deputy to Dr. Halley , secretary at the Royal Society , Sir Isaac talked of these kind of instruments . That he observed the chief inconvenience in them was , that the hole through which the water is ...
... says Dr. Stukely , " when I was deputy to Dr. Halley , secretary at the Royal Society , Sir Isaac talked of these kind of instruments . That he observed the chief inconvenience in them was , that the hole through which the water is ...
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... says M. Biot , " having one day found him under a hedge with a book in his hand and entirely absorbed in medita- tion , took it from hirn , and found that he was occupied in the solution of a mathematical problem . Struck with finding ...
... says M. Biot , " having one day found him under a hedge with a book in his hand and entirely absorbed in medita- tion , took it from hirn , and found that he was occupied in the solution of a mathematical problem . Struck with finding ...
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... says our author , " a very pleasing divertisement to view the vivid and intense colours produced thereby , " but this pleasure was immediately succeeded by surprise at various circum- stances which he had not expected . According to the ...
... says our author , " a very pleasing divertisement to view the vivid and intense colours produced thereby , " but this pleasure was immediately succeeded by surprise at various circum- stances which he had not expected . According to the ...
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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.