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" This advice is not so severe as that of Flamsteed's own particular friend Dr. Smith. " My advice is that you represent your case nakedly, clearly, and -without any flourish, or without any kind of resentment, as you are a philosopher and a mathematician,... "
Supplement to The Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer ... - Page 747
by Francis Baily - 1837 - 77 pages
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2

David Brewster - 1855 - 584 pages
...advice is not so severe as that of Flamsteed7 s own particular friend Dr. Smith. " My advice is that you represent your case nakedly, clearly, and without...mathematician, and above all, as you are a clergyman.^ — Baily'e Flamsteed, pp. 293 and 747. Newton. Flamsteed has given three1 accounts of this meeting,...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2

David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...advice is not so severe as that of Flamsteed's own particular friend Dr. Smith. " My advice is that you represent your case nakedly, clearly, and without...you are a philosopher and a mathematician, and above a'l, as you are a clergyman."—Baily's Flamtteed, pp 293 and 747. Newton. Flamsteed has given three...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2

David Brewster - 1855 - 594 pages
...advice is not so severe as that of Flamsteed's own particular friend Dr. Smith. " My advice is that you represent your case nakedly, clearly, and without...any flourish, or without any kind of resentment, as yon are a philosopher and a mathematician, and above all, as you are a clergyman." — Baily's Flavateed,...
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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal, Volume 2

Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - 1997 - 1194 pages
...contract into a close and well connected summe the Substance of your large apologetic letter2 to mee, and represent your case nakedly clearly and without...Mathematician, and above all, as you are a Clergyman, and Send copyes to the great men, who are so solicitous for the great worke you have been employed upon for...
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

Adrian Johns - 2009 - 779 pages
...suggested that he go further still. He urged Flamsteed to compose a statement of his case, phrased "as you are a Philosopher and a Mathematician, and above all, as you are a Clergyman." This he should send to the "great men" who complained of his inactivity.77 As far as we know, Flamsteed...
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