The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous Inventions and Discoveries; and a Brief Sketch of the History of Astronomy Previous to His Time. Compiled from Authenic DocumentsJ. M'Glashan, 1849 - 311 pagina's |
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... A short Chronicle from the first Memory of Things in Europe to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great . " It consists of about twenty four quarto printed pages , with an introduction of four pages , in which Sir Isaac states that ...
... A short Chronicle from the first Memory of Things in Europe to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great . " It consists of about twenty four quarto printed pages , with an introduction of four pages , in which Sir Isaac states that ...
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... a Short Chronicle from the first memory of Things in Europe , to the Conquest of Persia , by Alexander the Great . " It was dedicated to the Queen , by Mr. Conduit , and consists of six chapters ; 1. On the Chronology of the Greeks ; 2 ...
... a Short Chronicle from the first memory of Things in Europe , to the Conquest of Persia , by Alexander the Great . " It was dedicated to the Queen , by Mr. Conduit , and consists of six chapters ; 1. On the Chronology of the Greeks ; 2 ...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ... George Grant Volledige weergave - 1849 |
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ... George Grant Volledige weergave - 1849 |
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Pagina 272 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 229 - He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.
Pagina 138 - 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.
Pagina 197 - I could not have believed what you tell me of yourself, had I had it from anybody else. And though I cannot but be mightily troubled that you should have had so many wrong and unjust thoughts of me...
Pagina 252 - At the third time, when the phantasm of light and colours about it were almost vanished, intending my fancy upon them to see their last appearance, I found, to my amazement, that they began to return, and by little and little to become as lively and vivid as when I had newly looked upon the sun. But when I ceased to intend my fancy upon them, they vanished again. After this...
Pagina 188 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Pagina 235 - To make such a system with all its motions, required a cause which understood, and compared together the quantities of matter in the several bodies of the sun and planets, and the gravitating powers resulting from thence, the several distances of the primary planets from the sun, and of the secondary ones from Saturn, Jupiter, and the Earth, and the velocities with which...
Pagina 280 - Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night, God said,
Pagina 138 - I must again beg you," says he, " not to let your resentments run so high as to deprive us of your third book, wherein your applications of your mathematical doctrine to the theory of 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 number.
Pagina 231 - In the eastern nations, and for a long time in the western, the faith subsisted without this text ; and it is rather a danger to religion than an advantage, to make it now lean upon a bruised reed.