I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in... Nature - Page 264redigeeritud poolt - 1871Full view - About this book
| David Brewster - 1831 - 328 lehte
...will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." This " considerable detection" was the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light... | |
| Baden Powell - 1837 - 424 lehte
...will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being, in my judgment, the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." The communication followed soon after, giving an account of the principal experiments already described.... | |
| 1841 - 690 lehte
...but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature. I desire also that since I am elected fellow of your honourable society, you would, in a word or two,... | |
| Stephen Peter Rigaud, bp. Stephen Jordan Rigaud - 1841 - 646 lehte
...but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument, being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature. I desire also that since I am elected fellow of your honourable society, you would, in a word or two,... | |
| 1845 - 334 lehte
...will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." This " considerable detection" was the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light... | |
| George Grant - 1849 - 318 lehte
...but will prove much more grateful than the commnnication of that instrument; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." This " considerable detection" was the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light... | |
| George Grant - 1849 - 316 lehte
...will prove much more grateful than the commnnication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...hath, hitherto been made in the operations of nature." This " considerable detection" was the discover}' of the different refrangibility of the rays of light... | |
| George Grant - 1849 - 322 lehte
...but will prove much more grateful than the commnnication of that instrument; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." This " considerable detection" was the discovery of the different refrangibility of the rays of light... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1850 - 440 lehte
...his intention of sending to the Royal Society " an account of a philosophical discovery," " being the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature," viz. the composition of light). 29. Letter to Oldenburg on the proportions of arsenic and bell-metal... | |
| Isaac Newton, J. Edleston - 1850 - 436 lehte
...his intention of sending to the Royal Society " an account of a philosophical discovery," " being the oddest, if not the most considerable detection, which...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature," viz. the composition of light). 29. Letter to Oldenburg on the proportions of arsenic and bell-metal... | |
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