A biographical sketch of sir Isaac Newton. To which are added reports of the oration of lord Brougham at Grantham |
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... Newton was born , Torricelli invented the barometer . In 1645 , Grotius died at Rostock , and in the same year , the screw press for coining was introduced into the mint at Paris . CHAPTER II . AT SCHOOL AT GRANTHAM . HAVING passed 7.
... Newton was born , Torricelli invented the barometer . In 1645 , Grotius died at Rostock , and in the same year , the screw press for coining was introduced into the mint at Paris . CHAPTER II . AT SCHOOL AT GRANTHAM . HAVING passed 7.
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... inventing diversions for them , above the vulgar kind . As for instance , in making paper kites , which he first ... invented this method ; I can't tell how true . They tell us too how diligent he was in observing the motion of the ...
... inventing diversions for them , above the vulgar kind . As for instance , in making paper kites , which he first ... invented this method ; I can't tell how true . They tell us too how diligent he was in observing the motion of the ...
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... invented the method of fluxions in 1665 , in which the motions or velocities of flowing quantities increase or decrease , but he had considered the increase and decrease of those motions or velocities them- selves , to which he ...
... invented the method of fluxions in 1665 , in which the motions or velocities of flowing quantities increase or decrease , but he had considered the increase and decrease of those motions or velocities them- selves , to which he ...
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Edmund Fillingham King. invented it . 2nd , That Leibnitz communicated to Newton in 1677 his Differential Calculus , with a complete system of notation , and that he published it in 1684 , three years before the publi- cation of Newton's ...
Edmund Fillingham King. invented it . 2nd , That Leibnitz communicated to Newton in 1677 his Differential Calculus , with a complete system of notation , and that he published it in 1684 , three years before the publi- cation of Newton's ...
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... invented by Sir Isaac Newton , and made with his own hands . " It will not be out of place to state here that , according to Mr. Edleston , the instrument now to be seen in Trinity College library , and shown to visitors as Newton's own ...
... invented by Sir Isaac Newton , and made with his own hands . " It will not be out of place to state here that , according to Mr. Edleston , the instrument now to be seen in Trinity College library , and shown to visitors as Newton's own ...
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第 104 頁 - 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 sea-shore, 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.
第 57 頁 - in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions. He had something rather languid in his look and manner which did not raise any great expectation in those who did not know him.
第 34 頁 - I see I have made myself a slave to philosophy; but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business, I will resolutely bid adieu to it eternally, excepting what I do for my private satisfaction, or leave to come out after me; for I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new, or to become a slave to defend it.
第 58 頁 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
第 33 頁 - I am purposing them to be considered of and examined on account of a philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being in my judgment the oddest if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature...
第 20 頁 - ... ill resented by men that think otherwise, as discommendations ; and you will insinuate into men's favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like ; but beware of doing it by a comparison.
第 87 頁 - taking mathematicians from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
第 33 頁 - Sarum in proposing me a candidate ; and which, I hope, will be further conferred upon me by my election into the Society ; and if so, I shall endeavour to testify my gratitude, by communicating what my poor and solitary endeavours can effect towards the promoting your philosophical designs.
第 57 頁 - This opinion of Bishop Atterbury is confirmed by an observation of Mr. Thomas Hearne, 1 who says, " that Sir Isaac was a man of no very promising aspect. He was a short well-set man. He was full of thought, and spoke very little in company, so that his conversation was not agreeable. When he rode in his coach one arm would be out of his coach on one side, and the other on the other.
第 55 頁 - Who, by a vigour of mind almost supernatural, First demonstrated The Motions and Figures of the Planets, The Paths of the Comets, and the Tides of the Ocean. He diligently investigated The different refrangibilities of the Rays of Light, And the properties of the Colours to which they give rise.