 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 σελίδες
...sooner," says Glaisher, "had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investi1 Consult theorems in Principia, Book I., Sec. XII., also Book III., Prop. VIII. For further... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 344 σελίδες
...sooner," says Glaisher, "had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investi1 Consult theorems in Principia, Book I., Sec. XII., also Book III., Prop. VIII. For further... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 342 σελίδες
...author made no use whatever of the information obtained through the Portsmouth Collection. gation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him." We proceed, with aid of Fig. 8, to explain Newton's calculation. Geodetic measurements gave the circumference... | |
 | Ernst Mach - 1915 - 136 σελίδες
...op. cit., p. 61), "had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it...theorems that form the first three sections of Book I [of the Principia], when he gave them in his lectures of 1684, he was unaware that the sun and earth... | |
 | Ernst Mach - 1915 - 134 σελίδες
...op. cit., p.' 6l), "had Newton proved this superb theorem—and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation—than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. When he discovered... | |
 | 1922 - 616 σελίδες
...Principia, Book 1, Prop. 91. "No sooner," says Glaisher, "had Newton proved this superb theorem . . . than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him." It is altogether clear that the Adams-Glaisher hypothesis on the origin of the law of gravitation in... | |
 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1997 - 308 σελίδες
...Principia, JW Glaisher said, Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — that all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. Newton's initial expectation... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 σελίδες
...Principia, No sooner had Newton proved this superb theorem - and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation - then all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him We can imagine the effect of... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier - 1946 - 224 σελίδες
...Glaisher says: No sooner had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it...mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. . .it was now in his power to apply mathematical analysis with absolute precision to the actual problems... | |
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had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him. 