 | Alfred Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 358 pages
...at once answered - too precisely - that the orbit would be an ellipse. Halley, "struck with joy and amazement, asked him how he knew it; Why, saith he,...whereupon Dr. Halley asked him for his calculation without any further delay." But the paper could not be found then and there, and Halley had to return to London... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...to the square of their distance from it. Sr Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how...whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation without any farther delay, Sr Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew... | |
 | Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 276 pages
...from it. Sir Isaac replied immediately that it would be an ellipsis. The Doctor, struck with joy and amazement, asked him how he knew it. Why, saith he,...Whereupon Dr. Halley asked him for his calculation without any further delay. Sir Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...from it. Sr Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy and amazement asked him how he knew it, why saith he I...whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation. Without any farther delay, Sr Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew... | |
 | R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin - Science - 2003 - 310 pages
...the square of the distance; Newton immediately answered, an ellipse: The Doctor struck with joy and amazement asked him how he knew it, why saith he I...whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation without any further delay, Sir Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 356 pages
...to the square of their distance from it. Sr Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how...whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation without any farther delay, Sr Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew... | |
 | John Roe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 324 pages
...from it. Sir Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy and amazement asked him how he knew it. Why saith he I...calculated it, whereupon Dr. Halley asked him for his calculations without further delay. Sir Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he... | |
 | Ann Stewart Balakier, James J. Balakier - Architecture - 1995 - 208 pages
...to the square of their distance from it. S' Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how...whereupon Dr Halley asked him for his calculation but could not find it, but he promised him to renew it, & then to send it to him. . . . 74 Years later... | |
 | David Acheson - Mathematics - 1997 - 284 pages
...to the square of their distance from it. Sr Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how he knew it, Why saith he I have calculated it ... In due course, this single achievement came to be recognized as one of the greatest scientific... | |
 | William H. Cropper - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 518 pages
...supposing the force of attraction towards the Sun to be reciprocal to the square of their distance from it. Sr Isaac replied immediately that it would be an [ellipse],...Isaac looked among his papers but could not find it, but he promised him to renew it, & then send it to him. A few months later Halley received the promised... | |
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Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how he knew it, why saith he I have calculated it... 
