A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton: The Scientific Portion of which Has Been Presented by the Earl of Portsmouth to the University of CambridgeUniversity Press, 1888 - 56 pages |
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Page xi
... and does not give the method by which these results have been obtained . Unfortunately also , the statement given in the first edition , as to the result which he had found by theory for the motion of the PREFACE . xi.
... and does not give the method by which these results have been obtained . Unfortunately also , the statement given in the first edition , as to the result which he had found by theory for the motion of the PREFACE . xi.
Page xiii
... method of his own of solving the difficult problem of horizontal refraction . Nothing was known of this method , however , until the pub- lication of the correspondence between Newton and Flamsteed by Mr Baily in 1835. In a letter to ...
... method of his own of solving the difficult problem of horizontal refraction . Nothing was known of this method , however , until the pub- lication of the correspondence between Newton and Flamsteed by Mr Baily in 1835. In a letter to ...
Page xiv
... method is general , provided that the differential of the density which is appropriate to any given law of diminution be employed in finding the corresponding differential of the refraction . In an interesting article in the Journal des ...
... method is general , provided that the differential of the density which is appropriate to any given law of diminution be employed in finding the corresponding differential of the refraction . In an interesting article in the Journal des ...
Page xv
... method , making repeated ap- proximations to the form of the path , and thus at length succeeding in satisfying all the required conditions . The papers show that the well - known approximate formula for refraction commonly known as ...
... method , making repeated ap- proximations to the form of the path , and thus at length succeeding in satisfying all the required conditions . The papers show that the well - known approximate formula for refraction commonly known as ...
Page xvi
... method was in his possession long before he himself became acquainted with the Differential Calculus . On the other hand Leibnitz , without avowing himself the author of the article in the Leipsic Acts , denied that it really bore the ...
... method was in his possession long before he himself became acquainted with the Differential Calculus . On the other hand Leibnitz , without avowing himself the author of the article in the Leipsic Acts , denied that it really bore the ...
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