 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...he was the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was, at this time, afflicted with a disease in his...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 1C37, he discovered the libration (qv)of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...he was the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was, at this time, afflicted with a disease in his...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 1G37, he discovered the libration (qv) of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in... | |
 | 1832 - 602 pages
...afflicted in his sight and lost an eye, and the other became useless when he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep and pain in his limbs, united to embitter the last days of his life. In my darkness (says he) I muse now upon this object of nature,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...he was the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was, at this time, afflicted with a disease in his...was active. " In my darkness," he writes in 1638,."! muse now upon this object of nature, and now upon that, and find it impossible to soothe my restless... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...several years, employing his time in the study of mechanics and other branches of natural philosophy. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his eyes,...useless, when in 1637 he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...he was the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was, at this time, afflicted with a disease in his...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration (qvjof the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to imbitter the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 370 pages
...several years, employing his time in the study of mechanics and other branches of natural philosophy. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his eyes,...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...he was the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his eyes,...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...he was the firs who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his eyes,...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 163") k* discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of deep, and pain in his limbs,... | |
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... present system of physics and astronomy. At the same time he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he w^as the first who reflected systematically on... 
