 | Francis Baily - 1835 - 770 pages
...I can neither fix to them with patience nor do them without errors* ; which makes me let the moon's theory alone at present, with a design to set to it again and go through it at once. When I have your materials I reckon it will prove a work of about three or four months : and when I... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 594 pages
...I can neither fix to them with patience, nor do them without errors, which makes me let the moon's theory alone at present, with a design to set to it again, and go through it at once. When I have your materials, I reckon it will prove a work of about three or four months ; and when... | |
 | 1861 - 600 pages
...present), I can neither fix to them with patience nor do them without errors, which makes me let the moon's theory alone at present, with a 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
...present), I can neither fix to them with patience nor do them without errors, which makes me let the moon's theory alone at present, with a 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... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - 1997 - 1194 pages
...summer and winter spring and autumn compounded together and observe such laws as I cannot yet determin. Nor have I been considering this point since I wrote to you last about it. The Table of horizontal Parallaxes2 was made by such limits as I gathered in Autumn from... | |
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... (as I did for a time last autumn, and again since 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... 