The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... inquiry, and having thought of a delicate method of polishing, 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 ...
... inquiry, and having thought of a delicate method of polishing, 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 ...
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... inquiries. With a mind less divergent in its pursuits, and more endowed with patience of thought, ho might have unveiled the mysteries in which both these subjects were enveloped, and pre-occupied the intellectual throne which was ...
... inquiries. With a mind less divergent in its pursuits, and more endowed with patience of thought, ho might have unveiled the mysteries in which both these subjects were enveloped, and pre-occupied the intellectual throne which was ...
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... inquiry ; and when, under the influence of this blind conviction, he pronounced the improvement of the refracting telescope to be desperate, be checked for a long time the progress of this branch of science, and furnished to future ...
... inquiry ; and when, under the influence of this blind conviction, he pronounced the improvement of the refracting telescope to be desperate, be checked for a long time the progress of this branch of science, and furnished to future ...
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... inquiry was his theory of the colours of natural bodies, which was communicated to the Royal Society on the 10th of February, 1675. This theory is perhaps the loftiest of all his speculations ; and though, as a physical generalization ...
... inquiry was his theory of the colours of natural bodies, which was communicated to the Royal Society on the 10th of February, 1675. This theory is perhaps the loftiest of all his speculations ; and though, as a physical generalization ...
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... inquiry. It is very difficult to ascertain his real views on the subject of inflexion. In his Discourse road in 1675, he ascribes it to the variable density of the ether within and without the inflecting body, thus regarding it as a new ...
... inquiry. It is very difficult to ascertain his real views on the subject of inflexion. In his Discourse road in 1675, he ascribes it to the variable density of the ether within and without the inflecting body, thus regarding it as a new ...
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