 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...theory of comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterward return to the first book,... | |
 | David Brewster - Mathematics - 1832 - 340 pages
...like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of cornets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...like very well : I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new proportions I have since thought of, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets.... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...like very well : I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new proportions I have since thought of, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets.... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...like very well : I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new proportions I have since thought of, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets.... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants tran? cribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new propositions...theory of comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterward return to the first book,... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 316 pages
...like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...theory of comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book,... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 318 pages
...like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...theory of comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book,... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 322 pages
...like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...theory of comets. In autumn last I spent two months in calculation to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book,... | |
 | Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 686 pages
..." I designed," says he, " the whole to consist of three books; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing...fairly. Some new propositions I have since thought of, which I can as well let alone. The third wants the theory of comets." Thus it appears that, about... | |
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The proof you sent me I like very well. I designed the whole to consist of three books ; the second was finished last summer, being short, and only wants transcribing, and drawing the cuts fairly. Some new propositions I have since thought on, which I... 
