| Josiah Quincy - 1840 - 650 pages
...vespere, AD 1707, a Tho. Brattle." Bailey, in his supplement to the account of Flamsteed, states, that " Mr. Thomas Brattle, of Boston in New England, is the anonymous person alluded to by Newton, in his Principia, as having made such good observations of the comet of 1680." The views of Mr. Brattle... | |
| John Langdon Sibley, Clifford Kenyon Shipton - 1881 - 582 pages
...reguntur. Tull in Lib. | 2. de natura deorum | Cambr. Printed by S. Green & S. Green : | 1678. B. 2. " Mr. Thomas Brattle of Boston in New England is the anonymous person alluded to by Newton in his Principia as having made such good observations on the comet of 1680 ; but he says, in his letter... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1928 - 200 pages
...refers is Thomas Brattle. It seems that Flamsteed and Brattle had been in correspondence. Baily says : Mr. Thomas Brattle of Boston in New England is the anonymous person alluded to by Newton in his Principia as having made such good observations of the comet of 1680: but he says, in his letter... | |
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