The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonHarper & Bros., 1843 - 314 páginas |
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... light upon an event in the life of our author that has recently acquired an unexpected and a painful importance . These letters , when combined with those which passed between Newton and Locke , and with a curious extract from the ...
... light upon an event in the life of our author that has recently acquired an unexpected and a painful importance . These letters , when combined with those which passed between Newton and Locke , and with a curious extract from the ...
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... Light , and the different Refrangibility of the Rays which compose it - Abandons his Attempts to improve Re- fracting Telescopes , and resolves to attempt the Construction of Reflecting ones - He quits Cambridge on account of the Plague ...
... Light , and the different Refrangibility of the Rays which compose it - Abandons his Attempts to improve Re- fracting Telescopes , and resolves to attempt the Construction of Reflecting ones - He quits Cambridge on account of the Plague ...
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... Light . CHAPTER IX . Miscellaneous Optical Researches of Newton - His Experiments on Refraction - His Conjecture respecting the Inflammability of the Diamond - His Law of Double Refraction - His Observations on the Polarization of Light ...
... Light . CHAPTER IX . Miscellaneous Optical Researches of Newton - His Experiments on Refraction - His Conjecture respecting the Inflammability of the Diamond - His Law of Double Refraction - His Observations on the Polarization of Light ...
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... light of which he went to school in the winter mornings , and he frequently attached these lanterns to the tails of his kites in a dark night , so as to inspire the country people with the belief that they were comets . In the house ...
... light of which he went to school in the winter mornings , and he frequently attached these lanterns to the tails of his kites in a dark night , so as to inspire the country people with the belief that they were comets . In the house ...
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... light . The imperfec- tions of his water clock had probably directed his thoughts to the more accurate measure of time which the motion of the sun afforded . In the yard of the * Mr. Clark informed Dr. Stukely that the walls of the room ...
... light . The imperfec- tions of his water clock had probably directed his thoughts to the more accurate measure of time which the motion of the sun afforded . In the yard of the * Mr. Clark informed Dr. Stukely that the walls of the room ...
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