 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 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... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 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... | |
 | Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 686 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... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 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... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1858 - 582 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, " a... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 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 i?," he says, " a... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 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... | |
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 1860 - 604 pages
...sought; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations; at length I have brought to light, and have recog. nized its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations." (Harm. Mundi, Lib. V.) Thns the Platonic... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 698 pages
...I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best pan of 'I v life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my mosi •anguine expectations. It is now eighteen mouths since I got... | |
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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... 
