 | Thomas Gribble - 1871 - 112 páginas
...of the work ; and in a letter intimating this desire, he says, ' Philosophy is such an impertinent, litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.' And, finally, some years of the great discoverer's life were embittered by the unhappy controversy... | |
 | Bernard Henry Becker - 1875 - 356 páginas
...matter." In reply to this Newton declared his intention to suppress the third book altogether, and said, " Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again than she gives me warning." Halley's invincible arguments and entreaties... | |
 | 1880 - 900 páginas
...disposed to conceal a discovery, rather than risk a controversy. " Philosophy," he wrote to IIalley,f " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her." Thus the turmoil raised by Hooke on the appearance of the first part of the " Principia " inspired... | |
 | 1880 - 924 páginas
...disposed to conceal a discovery, rather than risk a controversy. " Philosophy," lie. wrote to Ilalley, f "is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her." Thus the turmoil raised by Hooke on the appearance of the first part of the " Principia " inspired... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1893 - 195 páginas
...want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The two first books, without the third,... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 636 páginas
...and disinterested generosity, the Principia might never have been published."2 1 "The third [book] I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The first two books without the third will... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 538 páginas
...Books of Fishes ' " (Weld's ' History of the Royal Society,' vol. 1, p. 310). * " The third [book] I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The first two books without the third will... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 686 páginas
...with a bookseller at Amsterdam, as appears in a letter from Halley requesting 3 ** The third [book] 1 now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The first two books without the third will... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 624 páginas
...and disinterested generosity, the Principia might never have been published.'"2 1 "The third [book] I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. I found il so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning. The first two... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1894 - 470 páginas
...(RiGAFD, App. p. 30), Newton stated that the second book of his great work was nearly ready for press: ' the third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.' Fortunately for posterity, Halley prevented this. A letter announcing that the second book had been... | |
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The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. 
