 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astro noraical contemplations, at [ length I have brought to light,...recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. Great as is the absolute nature of Harmonics with all its details, as set forth in my third book, it... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...for which I settled in Prague, for which- 1 have devoted the best part of my life to astro nomical contemplations, at 'length I have brought to light,...recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. Great as is the absolute nature of Harmonic? with all its details, as set'forth in my third book, it... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astro nomical contemplations, at length I have brought to light, and have recognized its truih beyond my most sanguine expectations. Great as is the absolute nature of Harmonics with all its... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 516 pages
...that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations." The rule thus referred to is stated in... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1048 pages
...that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations." The rule thus referred to is stated in... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 836 pages
...tor which 1 settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astrononomical contemplations; — at length I have brought to light,...its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light, three months since the dawn, very few... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1847 - 530 pages
...that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations; at...recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations." The rule thus referred to is stated in the third chapter of this fifth book. "It is," he says, "»... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1851 - 188 pages
...that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled at Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations, at...recognized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations. Great as is the absolute nature of Harmonics, with all its details, as set forth in my third book,... | |
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I had promised my friends in the title of this book, which I named before I was sure of my discovery ; what, sixteen years ago, I urged as a thing to be sought; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted... 
