 | Julian Seymour Schwinger - 2002 - 274 pages
...philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope . . . being in my judgement the oddest if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made into the operations of nature."2 Newton had physically sepaJames Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) rated white... | |
 | Gale E. Christianson - 2005 - 160 pages
...philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which being in my judgment the oddest if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature."10 Little did anyone in London realize that Newton was referring to his discovery that white... | |
 | 1856 - 840 pages
...not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being in my judgment the oddest if not the most considerable detection...hitherto been made in the operations of nature."' The different refrangibility of the rays of light was the discovery alluded to. Previous to this period,... | |
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I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in... 
