A Biographical Sketch of Sir Isaac NewtonS. Ridge, 1858 - 118 pages |
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Page 112 - 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.
Page 63 - 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.
Page 64 - 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.
Page 39 - 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...
Page 26 - ... 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.
Page 40 - I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr Linus' business I will resolutely bid adieu to it eternally, except 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...
Page 95 - taking mathematicians from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
Page 26 - Observe their humours. 2. Suit your own carriage thereto, by which insinuation you will make their converse more free and open.
Page 28 - Roman vitrioll), but of a nobler virtue than that which is now called by that name ; which vitrioll is not now to be gotten, because, perhaps, they make a greater gain by some such trick as turning iron into copper with it than by selling it. 2. Whether, in Hungary, Sclavonia, Bohemia, near the town Eila, or at the mountains of Bohemia near Silesia, there be rivers whose waters are Impregnated...
Page 66 - The object of this problem was to determine the curve which should cut at right angles an infinity of curves of a given nature, but expressible by the same equation. Newton received this problem about five o'clock in the afternoon, as he was returning from the Mint ; and...