 | 1880 - 632 pages
...' composing the dispute,' to insert into the text of his book the following acknowledgment : — ' The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, 'as was discovered also independently by my countrymen ' Wren, Hooke, and Halley.' * How far Hooke was pacified by this... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...last letter, and he added, with a bad grace, the following scholium to the fourth proposition : — ' The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also, independently, by my countrymen Wren, Hooke, and Halley/ From Newton's correspondence it is evident... | |
 | David Brewster - Great Britain - 1855 - 504 pages
...present dispute," which he thought might be done by the enclosed scholium to the fourth proposition. " The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen, Wren, Hooke, and Halley." On the 30th June, the President was... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 922 pages
...view of " composing the dispute," to insert into the text of his book the following acknowledgment : " The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen, Wren, Hooke, andHalley."* How far Hooke was pacified by this concession... | |
 | Science - 1880 - 900 pages
...view of " composing the dispute," to insert into the text of his book the following acknowledgment : " The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen, Wren, Hooke, and Halley."* How far Hooke was pacified by this... | |
 | Medicine - 1922 - 458 pages
...the jealous complaints of a disappointed rival? He settled the matter, however, by adding to his work the following sentence: "The inverse law of gravity...holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen, Wren, Hooke, and Halley." This satisfied everyone, and in 1687,... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - Mathematics - 1925 - 122 pages
...rather a cold and scrupulous justice, thereupon agreed to publish the third book and added a note, ' The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen Wren, Hooke, and Halley.' This and other difficulties being smoothed... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Astronomy - 1927 - 1030 pages
...Satisfied on this point, Newton went on with the book, and added the almost unnecessarily handsome note, "The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen, Wren, Hooke, and Halley." The complete work, entitled "Philosophiae... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Astronomy - 1928 - 1006 pages
...Satisfied on this point, Newton went on with the book, and added the almost unnecessarily handsome note, "The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen Wren, Hooke, and Halley." The complete work, entitled "Philosophise... | |
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he considered how best to compose the present dispute," which he thought might be done by the enclosed scholium to the fourth proposition. " The inverse law of gravity holds in all the celestial motions, as was discovered also independently by my countrymen,... 
