 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sivua
...grasp at all things, must carry away ail the invention, as well of those that were to follow him, as those that went before. Much after the same manner...altitude — that the figure described by projectiles in that region would be an ellipsis, and that all the motions of the heavens were thus to be accounted... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sivua
...grasp at all things, must carry away afl the invention, as well of those that were to follow him, as those that went before. Much after the same manner...altitude — that the figure described by projectiles in that region would be an ellipsis, and that all the motions of the heavens were thus to be accounted... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 sivua
...grasp at all things, must carry away all the invention, as well of those that were to follow him, as those that went before. Much after the same manner...altitude — that the figure described by projectiles in that region would be an ellipsis, and that all the motions of the heavens were thus to be accounted... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 sivua
...another that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things, must carry away all the inventions, as well of those that were to follow him as of those that VOL. I.— 26 • Enc. Brit. Hooke, p. 2660. went before." This was written, however, under the influence... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 582 sivua
...another that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things, must carry away all the inventions, as well of those that were to follow him as of those that » EM. Brit. Hooke, p. 2660. VOL. I.— 26 went before." This was written, however, under the influence... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1914 - 666 sivua
...how to go about it. Now is not this very fine ? Mathe1 Rouse Ball, op. cit., pp. 159-160. maticians that find out, settle, and do all the business, must...telling me that gravity, in descent from hence to the center of the earth, was reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the altitude, that the figure described... | |
 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 396 sivua
...that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things must carry away all the invention, as well as of those that were to follow him, as of those that went before." In his great Principia of 1687 Newton took all of these questions out of the realm of nebulous speculation... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 sivua
...settle & do all the business must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators & drudges & another that does nothing but pretend and grasp at...that were to follow him as of those that went before' (Newton to Halley, 20 June 1686; Newton, 1959-1977, vol. 2, p. 438). On Hooke and Newton, and their... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 sivua
...themselves with being nothing but dry calculators & drudges & another that does nothing but pretend & grasp at all things must carry away all the invention...that were to follow him as of those that went before. . . . And why should I record a man for an Invention who founds his claim upon an error therein & on... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 sivua
...themselves with being nothing but dry calculators & drudges & another that does nothing but pretend & grasp at all things must carry away all the invention...that were to follow him as of those that went before. Hooke had stated nothing that any mathematician could not have told him once Huygens's work had been... | |
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Now is not this very fine ? Mathematicians, that find out, settle, and do all the business, must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges ; and another, that does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things, must carry away... 
