 My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out,...  General Mathematics - Page 447by Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...Gresham college, Henry Briggs, who addressed him, on their first meeting, in the following words : — ' My Lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help to astronomy, viz. the logarithms. But, my Lord, being... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 584 pages
...before one word was spoken. At last Mr Briggs began : ' Sir, I have undertaken this long jour, ney purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of thi« most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms; but, Sir, being... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1806 - 604 pages
...each beholding the other with admiration before one word was spoken. At last Mr Briggs began : ' Sir, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, Sir, being... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1806 - 604 pages
...beholding the other with admiration before one word was spoken. At last Mi Briggs began : ' Sir, I hnve undertaken this long journey purposely to see your...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz,, the logarithmi; but, Sir, being... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...beholding other almost with admiration before one word was spoke. At last Mr. Briggs began : " Sir, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to Icnow by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...each beholding other almost with admiration before one word was spoke. At Jast Mr. Briggs began : ' My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; ibut, my lord,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...beholding other almost with admiration before one word was spoke. At lut Mr. Briggs began : ' My lord, 1 have undertaken this long journey purposely to see...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came lirst to think of this most excellent help into astronomv, » tr. the logarithms ; but, my lord,... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 488 pages
...each beholding other almost with admiration before one word was spoke. At last Mr. Briggs began : ' My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...before one word was spoke. At last Mr. Briggs began : ' My lord, I have undertaken this longjourney purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came tirst to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz, the logarithms ; but, my lord,... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1820 - 606 pages
...quarter of an hour was spent in beholding each other, before one word was spoke; at last Briggs began, " My lord, I have undertaken this long journey, purposely...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity, you came first to think of this excellent help into astronomj, the logarithms: but, my lord, being by you... | |
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