 It may be justly said," says H alley, a contemporary of Newton and one of the greatest men of that or of any age, " it may be justly said that so many and so valuable philosophical truths as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were never yet owing...  An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. ... - Page xlvby Robert Woodhouse - 1818 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...worth the considering ; and it may be justly said, that so many and so valuable philosophical truths, as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were...owing to the capacity and industry of any one man whatever. On the Effects of a Burning Speculum, lately made in Germany— [1687.] THE outer circle... | |
 | Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - 208 pages
...worth the considering ; and it may be justly said, that so many and so valuable philosophical truths, as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were...owing to the capacity and industry of any one man. Advertisement. Whereas the publication of these Transactions has for some months last past been interrupted,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 pages
...Oxford, By John Keill, MP, FBS 2 DesagnlieiK, nt supra, Preface, pp. viii, x. able philosophical truths, as are herein discovered, and put past dispute, were...owing to the capacity and industry of any one man." l " The importance and generality of the discoveries," says Laplace, " and the immense number of original... | |
 | James Stuart - 187? - 206 pages
...men of that or of any age, " it may be justly said that so many and so valuable philosophical truths as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were...owing to the capacity and industry of any one man." And Laplace, one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived, says of the work of Newton, " The importance... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1873 - 532 pages
...applicable as they were then: and it may be justly said, that so many and so Valuable Philosophical Truths, as are herein discovered and put past dispute, •were...yet owing to the Capacity and Industry of any one Mau. CHAPTER II. HUTGENS. 47. WE have now to examine an essay by Huygens entitled Discours de la Cause... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 520 pages
...(Weld, vol. ip 256). 1 " And it may be justly said, that so many and so valuable Philosophical Truths, as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were...owing to the Capacity and Industry of any one Man" (Words of Halley, Philos. Transactions, vol. xvi., 1687). demy, which was based upon the endowment... | |
 | Robert Spears - 1906 - 474 pages
...it may be justly said, so many and so valuable philosophical truths as were discovered by him, and past dispute, were never yet owing to the capacity and industry of any one man." Laplace has said : " The original and profound views of Newton ensure his works a pre-eminence above... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 pages
...(Weld, vol. ip 256). 1 "And it may be justly said, that so many and so valuable Philosophical Truths, as are herein discovered and put past dispute, were...owing to the Capacity and Industry of any one Man " (Words of Halley, Philos. Transactions, vol. xvi., 1687). THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT IN FKANCE. 10. French... | |
 | 1900 - 662 pages
...Mathematics.." Halley says of the "Principia": "That so many and so valuable philosophical truths, as are herein discovered, and put past dispute, were...owing to the capacity and industry of any one man." Laplace says: "The Principia has a preeminence above all the other productions of human genius." Newton... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...Others have spoken of it with efjual respect. Hallcy said that such a number ot truths as it revealed, " were never yet owing to the capacity and industry of any one man." Laplace declares that its " original and profound views give it a pre-eminence above all the other... | |
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