The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe,"* are the words of Laplace. " That work stands pre-eminent above all the other productions of the human mind. -(- " The discovery of... The American Journal of Science and Arts - Seite 511859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1859 - 482 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." "The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...law, by the greatness and the variety of the objects wnich it embraces, confers honor upon the intellect of man." Lagrange, we are told by D'Alembert, was... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...the variety of the objects which it embraces confers honour upon the intellect of man." | Lagrange, we are told by Delambre, was wont to describe Newton... | |
| Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...above all the other productions of the human mind, f " The discovery of that simple and general law by the greatness and the variety of the objects which... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...the greatest law of the universe," are the words of La Place. " That work stands preeminent above all other productions of the human mind." "The discovery... | |
| 1859 - 450 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...the greatest law of the universe," are the words of La Place. " That work stands preeminent above all other productions of the human mind." "The discovery... | |
| 1859 - 448 Seiten
...productions of the human mind." "The discovery of that simple and general law, by the greatness and variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honor upon the intellect of man." La Grange, we are told by Delambre, was wont to describe Xewton as the greatest genius that ever existed,... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 478 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which...greatness and the variety of the objects which it em* Weld's Hist. Royal Society, vol. i. 223 Statue of Sir Isaac Newton, at G-rantham. braces, confers... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...done was much the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genins which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe,"...variety of the objects which it embraces, confers honour upon the intellect of man." Lagrange, we are told by D'Alembert, was wont to describe Newton... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 Seiten
...day of Newton, what he had done was much the better half." And La Place added : li The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest law of the universe. The discovery of that simple and general law, by the greatness and variety of the objects it embraces,... | |
| 1861 - 328 Seiten
...world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was muc-b the better half." " The Principia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius which revealed to us the greatest laws of the universe" are the words of Laplace. " That work stands pre-eminent above all the other... | |
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