A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Том 1J. W. Parker, 1848 - 527 стор. |
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... occasion - Visitors examine the Observatory - Recommend Repairs and new Instruments - Ordnance decline to undertake the work - The Queen wishes the Society to take care of the Observatory - Appointment of celebrated Committee on the ...
... occasion - Visitors examine the Observatory - Recommend Repairs and new Instruments - Ordnance decline to undertake the work - The Queen wishes the Society to take care of the Observatory - Appointment of celebrated Committee on the ...
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... occasion , and first suggested those meetings ) , and many others . " These meetings we held sometimes at Dr. God- dard's lodgings in Wood Street ( or some convenient place near ) , on occasion of his keeping an operator in his house ...
... occasion , and first suggested those meetings ) , and many others . " These meetings we held sometimes at Dr. God- dard's lodgings in Wood Street ( or some convenient place near ) , on occasion of his keeping an operator in his house ...
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... occasion ; and after his remove to Ireland ( though not so constantly ) , at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins , then Warden of Wadham College , and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge , at the lodgings of the Honourable Mr ...
... occasion ; and after his remove to Ireland ( though not so constantly ) , at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins , then Warden of Wadham College , and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge , at the lodgings of the Honourable Mr ...
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... occasion , by the space of six weeks together , he shall be reputed to have left the Company , his name from thenceforth to be left out of the catalogue . " 6. That if any man doe not duly upon the day ap- poynted perform such exercise ...
... occasion , by the space of six weeks together , he shall be reputed to have left the Company , his name from thenceforth to be left out of the catalogue . " 6. That if any man doe not duly upon the day ap- poynted perform such exercise ...
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... occasion to be there , ) met as before . Those of us at Oxford , with Dr. Ward , Dr. Petty , and many others of the most inquisitive persons in Oxford , met weekly ( for some years ) at Dr. Petty's lodgings , on the like account , to ...
... occasion to be there , ) met as before . Those of us at Oxford , with Dr. Ward , Dr. Petty , and many others of the most inquisitive persons in Oxford , met weekly ( for some years ) at Dr. Petty's lodgings , on the like account , to ...
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Сторінка 146 - The business and design of the Royal Society is — To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practises, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments — (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick or Logick...
Сторінка 32 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Сторінка 309 - Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.
Сторінка 372 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Сторінка 129 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of nature's sea : The work he did we ought t...
Сторінка 33 - Ireland, though not so constantly, at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins, then warden of Wadham College; and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge, at the lodgings of the honourable Mr. Robert Boyle, then resident for divers years in Oxford.
Сторінка 88 - The success was, that within five weeks' space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Сторінка 59 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Сторінка 60 - THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men ; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days
Сторінка 358 - It raises water more than forty geometrical feet, by the power of one man onlv ; and in a very short space of time will draw up four vessels of water through a tube or channel not more than a span in width...