Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number CIX of the Quarterly ReviewJ. & J.J. Deighton, 1836 - 32 páginas |
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Página 11 - Secondly, I would not thrust such an incomplete catalogue on the world as he has done from St. Helena : nor be obliged to compliment the best reputed astronomers of our time (as he has done all of them) by telling them that, had their catalogues been extant, he would have called his a supplement to theirs, as he has done (for want of them) of Tycho's. Nor will I give any one occasion to tell the world I have erred a...