 The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe,"* are the words of Laplace. " That work stands pre-eminent above all the other productions of the human mind. -(- " The discovery of...  The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art1861Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 482 pages
...Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe," are the words of Laplace. " That...that simple and general law, by the greatness and the variety of the objects wnich it embraces, confers honor upon the intellect of man." Lagrange, we... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 pages
...Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe,"* are the words of Laplace. " That...of that simple and general law by the greatness and the variety of the objects which it embraces confers honour upon the intellect of man." | Lagrange,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pages
...the greatest law of the universe," are the words of La Place. " That work stands preeminent above all other productions of the human mind." "The discovery...variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honor upon the intellect of man." Lagrange, we are told by I)elambre, was wont to describe Newton as... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 pages
...Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe,"* are the words of Laplace. " That...above all the other productions of the human mind, f " The discovery of that simple and general law by the greatness and the variety of the objects which... | |
 | 1859 - 948 pages
..."The Principia wiU ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe," are the words of Laplace. "That...that simple and general law, by the greatness and the variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honor upon the intellect of man." Lagrange, we... | |
 | 1859 - 450 pages
...the greatest law of the universe," are the words of La Place. " That work stands preeminent above all other productions of the human mind." "The discovery...variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honor upoa the intellect of man." La Grange, we are told by Delambre, was wont to describe Newton as... | |
 | 1859 - 478 pages
...Plaee. " That work stands preeminent above all other produetions of the human mind'." "The diseovery of that simple and general law, by the greatness and variety of the objeets whieh it embraees, eonfers honor upon the intelleet of man." La Grange, we are told by Delambre,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genins which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe," are the words of Laplace. " That...that simple and general law, by the greatness and the variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honour upon the intellect of man." Lagrange,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe. The discovery of that simple and general law, by the greatness and variety of the objects it embraces, confers honor upon the entire intellect of man." The truth-possessor is of necessity a... | |
 | William Arthur Darby - 1864 - 150 pages
...the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." Laplace said, " The discovery of that simple and general law, by the greatness and the variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honour upon the intellect of man," — " the... | |
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