The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... thoughts to the more accurate measure of time which the motion of the sun afforded. In the yard of the house where he lived ... thought capable of being useful in the management of the farm and country business at Woolsthorpe, his mother ...
... thoughts to the more accurate measure of time which the motion of the sun afforded. In the yard of the house where he lived ... thought capable of being useful in the management of the farm and country business at Woolsthorpe, his mother ...
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... thoughts ; whilst the sheep were going astray, and the cattle were devouring or treading down the corn. Mrs. Smith was soon convinced from experience that her son was not destined to cultivate the soil ; and as his passion for study ...
... thoughts ; whilst the sheep were going astray, and the cattle were devouring or treading down the corn. Mrs. Smith was soon convinced from experience that her son was not destined to cultivate the soil ; and as his passion for study ...
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... thought to the society of men imbued with all the literature and science of the age, — must be one of eventful interest. To Newton it was a source of peculiar excitement. The history of science affords many examples where the young ...
... thought to the society of men imbued with all the literature and science of the age, — must be one of eventful interest. To Newton it was a source of peculiar excitement. The history of science affords many examples where the young ...
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... thought^ not amiss first to examine those circumstances, and so fiid what would happen by „ transmitting light through pan> of the glass of divers thicknesses, or through holes in tie window of divers bignesses, or by setting the prism ...
... thought^ not amiss first to examine those circumstances, and so fiid what would happen by „ transmitting light through pan> of the glass of divers thicknesses, or through holes in tie window of divers bignesses, or by setting the prism ...
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Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. verted it ; for by this means he thought the regular effects of the prism ABC would be destroyed by the prisir BCB', and tbe irregular ones more augmented by the multiplicity of refractions. The result was ...
Sir David Brewster W. T. Lynn. verted it ; for by this means he thought the regular effects of the prism ABC would be destroyed by the prisir BCB', and tbe irregular ones more augmented by the multiplicity of refractions. The result was ...
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