| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and uompletest that has ever yet been made ; and as it tends to the...it should be lost, the loss would be irreparable.' But, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton 'Was certainly very strange, and not... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...charge to be about 8631. ; and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and completest that has ever yet been...it should be lost, the loss would be irreparable.' But, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton was certainly very strange, and not... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 pages
...charge to be about 863Í. ; and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and completest that has ever yet been...it should be lost, the loss would be irreparable.' But, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton was certainly very strange, and not... | |
| 1836 - 602 pages
...charge to be about 863/. ; and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and completest that has ever yet been...it should be lost, the loss would be irreparable.' But, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton was certainly very strange, and not... | |
| 1836 - 1184 pages
...and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and completes! that has ever yet been made ; and as it tends to the...perfection of astronomy and navigation, so, if it should be lust, the loss would be irreparable.' But, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...and they conclude their report thus : ' This set of observations we report the fullest and completes! that has ever yet been made ; and as it tends to the...perfection of astronomy and navigation, so, if it should he lost, the loss would be irreparable.' J3ut, on this occasion, the conduct imputed to Sir Isaac Newton... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...Catalogues of the Fixed Stars in Latin, are proper to come abroad." "This set of Observations," they add, " we repute the fullest and completest that has ever...will please to be at the charge of publishing it." The report bears the date of 23rd January, 1704 — 5, and soon after the Observations were sent to... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 pages
...Catalogues of the Fixed Stars in Latin, are proper to come abroad." " This set of Observations," they add, " we repute the fullest and completest that has ever...will please to be at the charge of publishing it." The report bears the date of 23rd January, 1704—5, and soon after the Observations were sent to press.... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...parties. Mr. Baily has seen " four copies or and completest that has ever yet been made, and as it leads to the perfection of astronomy and navigation, so,...it should be lost, the loss would be irreparable." The Report is published in Baily's Flamtteed, p. 234. i I have found three rough copies of these articles,... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...of £863. And yet they told the prince, "This set of observations we Repute the fullest & Complatest that has ever yet Been made: and as it tends to the perfiction of Astronomy & Navigation: so if it should be Lost, the Los would Be irreparable . . ."104... | |
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