The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... comets. In the house where he lodged there were some female inmates, in whose company he appears to have taken much pleasure. One of these, a Miss Storey, sister to Dr. Storey, a physician at Buckminster, near Colsterworth, was two or ...
... comets. In the house where he lodged there were some female inmates, in whose company he appears to have taken much pleasure. One of these, a Miss Storey, sister to Dr. Storey, a physician at Buckminster, near Colsterworth, was two or ...
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... comets wheeling in every direction in their eccentric orbits ; and the systems of the fixed stars stretching to the remotest limits of space. All the varied and complicated movements of the heavens, in short, must have been at once ...
... comets wheeling in every direction in their eccentric orbits ; and the systems of the fixed stars stretching to the remotest limits of space. All the varied and complicated movements of the heavens, in short, must have been at once ...
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... comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with diverse propositions, some relating to comets, others to other ...
... comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with diverse propositions, some relating to comets, others to other ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... comets were retained in their orbits by the same laws which regulated the motions of the planets, yet it was not easy to put this opinion to the test of observation. The visibility working out a scheme by which — availing himself of the ...
... comets were retained in their orbits by the same laws which regulated the motions of the planets, yet it was not easy to put this opinion to the test of observation. The visibility working out a scheme by which — availing himself of the ...
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