 | Isaac Newton - Mathematicians - 1850 - 440 pages
...Geometer. A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. Experience is necessary, but yet there is the same difference between a mere practical Mechanick and... | |
 | Isaac Newton, Roger Cotes - Mathematicians - 1850 - 436 pages
...Geometer. A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. Experience is necessary, but yet there is the same difference between a mere practical Mechanick and... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...S9PS-8N4-F4WT A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. Isaac Newton to Nathaniel Hawes 25 May 1694 NEVER AT REST A Biography of Isaac Newton RICHARD S. WESTFALL... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...the words are taken from a letter in which Newton is evidently describing his own restless mind:33 'he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.') Paragraph [d] is a bit confused but certainly helps to emphasize the dignity (or rather magnitude)... | |
 | Lowell S. Brown - Science - 1992 - 564 pages
...function. Problems A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. Isaac Newton to Nathaniel Haws 25 May 1694 1. The functional integral representation of the driven... | |
 | Ronald Calinger - Mathematics - 1996 - 380 pages
...May 1694: "A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub." Perhaps you will note that it is this quotation that inspired the title of Richard S. Westfall's fabulous... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - Science - 2001 - 778 pages
...the words are taken from a letter in which Newton is evidently describing his own restless mind:33 'he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously...motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.') Paragraph [d] is a bit confused but certainly helps to emphasize the dignity (or rather magnitude)... | |
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road, he is at a stand; Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously... 