| John William Navin Sullivan - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 122
...he had designed the whole work to consist of three books, and then makes the alarming statement : ' The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man has as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 1030
...mentioning that he had designed the whole work to consist of three books, made the alarming statement: — "The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning." Halley, who, to the great discredit of... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 1006
...mentioning that he had designed the whole work to consist of three books, made the alarming statement : — The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. Halley, who, to the great discredit of... | |
| Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...application of his mathematical physical laws to the universe and on which his special fame is based : "The third, I now design to suppress. Philosophy is...litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in law suits, as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner near her again, but... | |
| History of Science Society - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...dated November z8, 1679." Newton refers to this matter again in a letter to Halley, June zo, 1688: "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
| 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 1216
...square of ,he distance. Stung by the prospect of a new war, he wrote to Halley : " Philosophy is sudi an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as...to do with her. I found it so formerly ; and now I am no sooner come near her again, than she jives me warning." There is certainly a want f heroism in... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...Principia. " Philosophy," he said, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical... | |
| Arthur Quinn - 1977 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...congratulate himself on having been such a sly Odysseus; but then Newton added, as if an afterthought, "The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigous lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. I found it so... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1962 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...Newton announced and killed the third book: The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such a litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The reasons for this design have never... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 934
...exasperation, all the pent-up tension of a year and a half of stupendous and unremitting toil burst out. "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again but... | |
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