 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...When I set mvself wholly to calculations, I can endure them, and go through them well enough ; but when I am about other things (as at present), I can...design to set to it again and go through it at once.' To a man of this temperament — and to no other could thi career of discovery which Newton ran have... | |
 | 1861 - 600 pages
...When I set myself wholly to calculations, I can endure them, and go through them well enough ; but when I am about other things (as at present), I can...design to set to it again and go through it at once.' To a man of this temperament — and to no other could the career of discovery which Newton ran have... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1861 - 604 pages
...set myself wholly to calculations, I can endure them, and go through them well enough ; but when 1 am about other things (as at present), I can neither...design to set to it again and go through it at once." To a man of this temperament — and to no other could the career of discovery which Newton ran have... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...Table of Refractions) I can endure them & go through them well enough [he told Flamsteed in April]. But when I am about other things, (as at present) I can neither fix to them wth patience nor do them wthout errors. Which makes me let the Moons Theory alone at present wlh a... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - 1997 - 1194 pages
...Christmas in making the Table of Refractions) I can endure them and go through them well enough. But when I am about other things, (as at present) I can...neither fix to them with patience nor do them without errors5. Which makes me let the Moons Theory alone at present with a designe to set to it again and... | |
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When I set myself wholly to calculations, I can endure them, and go through them well enough ; but when I am about other things (as at present), I can neither fix to them with patience nor do them without errors, which makes me let the moon's theory alone... 