 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry, Plane - 1809 - 522 pages
...in mechanics, navigation, and the various complicated arts of life. A refined analysis has disclosed the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted...laws appointed for the government of the Universe. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH, Oct. 15.1809. I,—TABLE of Correspondence between these Books of Geometry and... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry, Analytic - 1809 - 542 pages
...in mechanics, navigation, and the various complicated arts of life. A refined analysis has disclosed the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted the philosopher, through a maze of intricate phsenomena, to the great laws appointed for the government of the Universe. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH, 1... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...in mechanics, navigation, and the various complicated arts of life. A refined analysis has disclosed the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted...laws appointed for the government of the universe.' — Preface, page vi to xii. In the preceding quotation, we know not which most to admire, the modesty... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry - 1817 - 456 pages
...distinctly trace whatever progress the moderns have been enabled to achieve in mechanics, navagation, and the various complicated arts of life. A refined...laws appointed for the government of the Universe. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH, 1 March 1. 1817. J ELEMENTS GEOMETRY. VFEOMETRY is that branch of natural science... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry, Modern - 1820 - 488 pages
...English public, the discriminating eye will repose with delight on the harbinger of brighter prospects. It is the nature of genuine science to advance in...laws appointed for the government of the Universe. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH, Nov. 1. 1820. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY. VTEOMETEY is that branch of natural science... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - Geometry, Plane - 1820 - 482 pages
...new relations are descried ; and the most distant objects seem gradually to approxiXll PREFACE. mate. But, while science thus enlarges its bounds, it likewise...laws appointed for the government of the Universe. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH,! AW 1. 1820. I ELEMENTS GEOMETRY. VTEOMETRY is that branch of natural science... | |
 | Medicine - 1855 - 676 pages
...refined analysis discovered the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted the immortal Newton through a maze of intricate phenomena to the great...laws appointed for the government of the universe, it is melancholy to reflect for how many ages the opinions of one man were the measure of truth and... | |
 | 1856 - 778 pages
...refined analysis discovered the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted the immortal Newton through a maze of intricate phenomena to the great...laws appointed for the government of the universe, it is melancholy to reflect for how many ages the opinions of one man were the measure of truth and... | |
 | Robert Dunn - Psychology, Experimental - 1858 - 138 pages
...refined analysis discovered the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted the immortal Newton through a maze of intricate phenomena to the great...laws appointed for the government of the universe, it is melancholy to reflect for how many ages the opinions of one man were the measure of truth and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 656 pages
...refined analysis discovered the harmony of the celestial motions, and conducted the immortal Newton, through a maze of intricate phenomena, to the great...laws appointed for the government of the universe ! It is happily now no longer a matter of dispute that the laws of mind rest essentially on the basis... | |
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Theory soon descends to guide and assist the operations of practice. To the geometrical speculations of the Greeks, we may distinctly trace whatever progress the moderns have been enabled to achieve in mechanics, navigation, and the various complicated... 
