 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1893 - 195 pages
...sooner," to quote from Dr. Glaisher's address on the bicentenary of the publication of the Principia, "had " Newton proved this superb theorem — and we...beautiful a result " till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all "the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. " When he... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 344 pages
...distances he might have claimed that it yielded close 1 ET GLAZEBROOK, article "Newton " in Die. Nat. Biog. approximations. When Halley visited Newton in 1684,...Cambridge Chronicle, April 20, 1888. We have used also BALL, Hist, of Math., 1888, pp. 295-297. ROSENBERGER'S Isaac Newton und seine Physilialischen Principien... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...might have claimed that it yielded close 1 KT GLAZEBROOK, article "Newton " in .Die. Nat. Biog, '' approximations. When Halley visited Newton in 1684,...on the discovery of the law of gravitation, consult WWK BALL, op. cit. ; JWL GLAISHER, "Bicentenary Address," Cambridge Chronicle, April 20, 1888. 'We... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1901 - 580 pages
...sooner," to quote from Dr Glaisher's address on the bicentenary of the publication of the Prinfipia, " had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. When he discovered... | |
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1908 - 576 pages
...sooner," to quote from Dr. Glaisher's address on the bicentenary of the publication of the Principia, "had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that ho had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation... | |
 | Ernst Mach - 1915 - 136 pages
...commemoration (1887) of the bicentenary of the publication of the Principia (see Ball, op. cit., p. 61), "had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. When he discovered... | |
 | Ernst Mach - 1915 - 134 pages
...publication of the Principia (see Ball, op. cit., p.' 6l), "had Newton proved this superb theorem—and we know from his own words that he had no expectation...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation—than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. When he discovered... | |
 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1997 - 308 pages
...heavens. In an address given on the bicentenary of the publication of the Principia, JW Glaisher said, Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — that all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. Newton's initial... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 pages
...of JWL Glaisher, on the occasion of the bicentenary of the publication of the Principia, No sooner had Newton proved this superb theorem - and we know...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation - then all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him We can imagine... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier - 1946 - 224 pages
...simplification whereby the Sun, planets, Earth and Moon were taken as massive points. Glaisher says: No sooner had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know...beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. . .it was now... | |
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had " Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his " own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result " till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all "the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before... 