 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 396 pages
..."Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now...am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning."66 And yet, as Brewster says,66 at the very time when Newton was engaged in controversy with... | |
 | Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - 330 pages
...universe and on which his special fame is based : "The third, I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in law suits, as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner near her again, but... | |
 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 394 pages
...November z8, 1679." Newton refers to this matter again in a letter to Halley, June 10, 1688: "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...square of ,he distance. Stung by the prospect of a new war, he wrote to Halley : " Philosophy is sudi an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as...formerly ; and now I am no sooner come near her again, than she jives me warning." There is certainly a want f heroism in all this. We would rather have een... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 432 pages
...Principia. " Philosophy," he said, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. I found...sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical discoveries he had written to Oldenburg : " I intend to... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 428 pages
...Philosophy," he said, " is snch an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engaged in lawraits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and...sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical discoveries he had written to Oldenburg: " I intend to be... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 434 pages
...such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engaged in lawsuits as have to do wth her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical discoveries he had written to Oldenburg : " I intend to... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1962 - 452 pages
...Newton announced and killed the third book: The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such a litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged...come near her again, but she gives me warning. The reasons for this design have never been quite clear. 1 Rouse Ball, 158. 1 Cf. Halley to Newton, 7 June... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 pages
...think him a man of a strange unsociable temper. . . . Philosophy [he lamented, with a cry of anguish] is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. He concluded his complaint by threatening to suppress Book III. Since... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...the pent-up tension of a year and a half of stupendous and unremitting toil burst out. "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again but... | |
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The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. 
