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" I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow. "
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA: A Popular Dictionary of GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. - Pagina 347
1875
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - 1899 - 342 pagina’s
...December 9, 1675, wrote to Leibniz, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Hooke upheld the undulatory theory of light as against Newton's corpuscular theory. Newton's reply...
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 pagina’s
...December 9, 1675, wrote to Leibniz, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my qniet, to run after a shadow." Hooke upheld the undulatory theory of light as against Newton's corpuscular...
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Walter William Rouse Ball - 1901 - 580 pagina’s
...the years 1672 to 1675, and proved extremely distasteful to him. Writing on Dec. 9, 1675, he says, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising out...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." Again on Nov. 18, 1676, he observes, "I see I have made myself a slave to philosophy; but, if I get...
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Walter William Rouse Ball - 1901 - 586 pagina’s
...the yearn 1672 to 1675, and proved extremely distasteful to him. \Vritingon Dec. 9, 1675, he says, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising out...imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing HS my quiet to run after a shallow." Again on Nov. 18, 1676, he observes, "I see I have made myself...
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Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science

Indiana Academy of Science - 1903 - 1048 pagina’s
...was so persecuted,1' he wrote, "with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I Illumed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." Newton was well versed in the method of fluxions, and the inverse method, that is in differentiation...
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Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, Volumes 13-15

Indiana Academy of Science - 1904 - 828 pagina’s
...disposition. "I was so persecuted," he wrote, "with discussions arising out of my theory of fight, that i blamed my own imprudence for parting with so...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." Newton was well versed in the method of fluxions, and the inverse method, that is in differentiation...
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Memorable Unitarians: Being a Series of Brief Biographical Sketches

Robert Spears - 1906 - 474 pagina’s
...to paper any more on that subject. I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." For many years the old theories he opposed kept their ground both at home and abroad. Though Newton...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1852 - 650 pagina’s
...to excite the hostility of rivals, — " I intend to have done with matters of philosophy. I blame my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." "You see what fame is !" wrote Lord Byron to a friend. " I don't know what others feel ; but I am always...
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Essays on the Life and Work of Newton

Augustus De Morgan - 1914 - 262 pagina’s
...matters of philosophy." And again, " I was so persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow. " The researches on the colours of thin plates, and the explanation known by the name of the theory...
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Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of Science

Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 378 pagina’s
...discussions arising out of my theory of light," he wrote in 1675, " that I blamed my own impudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow " ; and a year later he remarked, " I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new, or to become...
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