The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's., 1728 |
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... piece . I fhall only here add a few re- marks in general . 1. As the prefent Treatife is an introduction to Sir Ifaac Newton's book of Opticks , fo it contains the demonftrations of many things there made use of without their proofs ...
... piece . I fhall only here add a few re- marks in general . 1. As the prefent Treatife is an introduction to Sir Ifaac Newton's book of Opticks , fo it contains the demonftrations of many things there made use of without their proofs ...
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This is veral copies of them are got abroad . a very agreeable piece of news to all lovers of mathematical learning ; feeing it is to be hoped , thofe valuable works will not now be loft , either through accident or defign . Nay , we ...
This is veral copies of them are got abroad . a very agreeable piece of news to all lovers of mathematical learning ; feeing it is to be hoped , thofe valuable works will not now be loft , either through accident or defign . Nay , we ...
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... piece of marble with- out being reciprocally attracted by it ; for why should any particular bodies be endued with this attractive virtue more than others ? Sir Ifaac Newton always fuppofes the action of gravita- tion to be reciprocal ...
... piece of marble with- out being reciprocally attracted by it ; for why should any particular bodies be endued with this attractive virtue more than others ? Sir Ifaac Newton always fuppofes the action of gravita- tion to be reciprocal ...
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... piece of Sir Ifaac Newton's , fhould employ the utmost art to come at fuch a treafure ; and one must be very fevere indeed to condemn it . This co- py was brought over into France by the perfon who was fo fortunate as to poffefs it ...
... piece of Sir Ifaac Newton's , fhould employ the utmost art to come at fuch a treafure ; and one must be very fevere indeed to condemn it . This co- py was brought over into France by the perfon who was fo fortunate as to poffefs it ...
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... Piece was compofed by that no- ble Genius the late Earl of Shaftesbury , his name is fufficient to recommend it to the curi ous , especially feeing it is not to be found in the late Edition of his Works . It was written from Naples to ...
... Piece was compofed by that no- ble Genius the late Earl of Shaftesbury , his name is fufficient to recommend it to the curi ous , especially feeing it is not to be found in the late Edition of his Works . It was written from Naples to ...
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Seite 100 - And without a public voice, knowingly guided and directed, there is nothing which can raise a true ambition in the artist; nothing which can exalt the genius of the workman, or make him emulous of after fame, and of the approbation of his country, and of posterity.
Seite 434 - A new Mathematical Dictionary : Wherein is contained, not only the Explanation of the bare Terms, but likewife an Hiftory of the Rife, Progrefs, State, Properties, &c. of Things, both in pure Mathematicks and natural Philofophy, fo far as it comes under a Mathematical Confideration.
Seite 102 - ... a right one in government. She has now the advantage of beginning in other matters on a new foot. She has her models yet to seek, her scale and standard to form, with deliberation and good choice. Able enough...
Seite 84 - ... studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor the want of a companion at home.
Seite 101 - Nothing is so improving, nothing so natural, so congenial to the liberal arts, as that reigning liberty and high spirit of a people, which from the habit of judging in the highest matters for themselves, makes them freely judge of other subjects, and enter thoroughly into the characters as well of men and manners, as of the products or works of men, in art and science.
Seite 101 - For ftould they do fo, they would in reality do more harm than good ; fmce it is not the nature of a court, fuch as courts generally are, to improve, but rather corrupt a tafte. And what is in the beginning fet wrong by their example, is hardly ever afterwards recoverable in the genius of a nation. Content therefore I am, my Lord, that Britain...
Seite 277 - Thefe years and months (hey corrected from time to time, by the courfes of the Sun and Moon> omitting a day or two in the month as often as they found it. too long for the courfe of the Moon, and adding a Month to the year as often as they found the...
Seite 426 - And from the fmarting Wound a Purple Tide Marks all his Way with Blood, and dyes the grafly Plain, V. But fwifter far is execrable Care Than Stags, or Winds that thro...
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Seite 380 - ... a distinct idea is that wherein the mind perceives a difference from all others, and a confused idea is such an one as is not sufficiently distinguishable from another from which it ought to be different".