| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 Seiten
...; it was, and had been for a century back, in progress—in a progress continually accelerated; but it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that it was matured. In reality, it is manifest, that, until all the parts of a machine exist, the law or... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 682 Seiten
...it was, and had been for a century back, in progress — in a progress continually accelerated ; but it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that it was matured. In reality, it is manifest, that, until all the parts of a machine exist, the law or... | |
| 1892 - 700 Seiten
...give even so much as advice svhat books to read." Need we marvel that Cambridge in New England was not mathematical from the start? The fountain could not rise higher than its source. It must be remembered, moreover, that since the prime object of Harvard and other American colleges was... | |
| 1883 - 516 Seiten
...crossed the Channel, and thk monarch contributed to the maintenance of carpet works at Mortlake. However, it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that much progress was made. In 1664, Colbert, the Prime minister of Louis XIV. of France, established a... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1890 - 958 Seiten
...mechanical. This account is confirmed by his [Wallis's] contemporary, Horrocks, who was also at Emmanuel and whose works "Wallis afterwards edited." In a biography...with such rapid strides that the youthful college in the west became almost invisible in the distant rear. The mathematical course at Harvard remained... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 462 Seiten
...it was, and had been for a century back, in progress — in a progress continually accelerated ; but it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that it was matured. In reality, it is manifest that, until all the parts of a machine exist, the law or... | |
| Albert Prescott Marble - 1891 - 314 Seiten
...give even so much as advice what books to read." Need we marvel that Cambridge in NewEngland was not mathematical from the start? The fountain could not rise higher than its source. It must be remembered, moreover, that since the prime object of Harvard and other American colleges was... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 452 Seiten
...it was, and had been for a century back, in progress — in a progress continually accelerated ; but it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that it was matured. In reality, it is manifest that, until all the parts of a machine exist, the law or... | |
| 1888 - 1076 Seiten
...mechanical. This account is confirmed by his [Wallis's] contemporary, Horrocks, who was also at Emmanuel and whose works Wallis afterwards edited." In a biography...into prominence. Impelled by the genius of Sir Isaac Newton, old Cambridge advanced with such rapid strides that the youthful college in the west became... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1906 - 522 Seiten
...seventeenth century, see Watson, II, 11o-1ll, 134; Martins, O Brazil, etc., 64, 66. for a brief period only. It was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that they actually established themselves in Cayenne.1 If the French peril was a serious one, that which... | |
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