 | Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 382 pagina’s
...to Newton, and that it almost made him decide to do no work except for his private satisfaction. " I was so persecuted with 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... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 522 pagina’s
...perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I study chiefly to decline." Again in 1675 he writes "I was so persecuted with discussions arising out...light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with ao substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow." Students in this Science, to draw up... | |
 | Ivor Blashka Hart - 1924 - 330 pagina’s
...Leibnitz he expressed himself thus : ' 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.' Newton' s activities on the subject of optics continued unabated. He took up the subject of colours... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - 1925 - 122 pagina’s
...effect of making him resolve never again to publish anything. Thus, in a letter of 1675 he says, ' I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of...a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow.' In a letter of a year later the matter is still rankling. He writes, ' I see I have made myself a slave... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 384 pagina’s
...the most bitter opposition. At last, he became so tired of the controversy, that he wrote Leibnitz, "I was so persecuted with discussions arising out...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." To another he wrote, "I see I have made myself a slave to philosophy; but if I get free of Mr. Linus's... | |
 | 1922 - 486 pagina’s
...blunders of others than he did in his own researches. In 1675 we find him writing to Leibnitz:—"I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." Again, disappointed because he did not receive a law fellowship,—tor there is reason to believe that... | |
 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pagina’s
...himself in a letter 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." Henceforward he showed himself very unwilling to make public any of his discoveries. Yet, as fate would... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pagina’s
...either resolve to put out nothing new, or to become a slave to deend it." And to Leibnitz he remarks : " I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of Light, that 1 blamed my own mprudence for parting with so substantial a Messing as my quiet, to run after a shadow."... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 pagina’s
...persecuted with discussions arising from the publication of my theory of light," he wrote to Leibniz, "that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with...substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow." And to Oldenburg: "I see I have made myself a slave to philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's... | |
 | Naomi Zack - 1996 - 268 pagina’s
...solicitous about matters of philosophy." He believed himself "persecuted with discussions" and blamed his "own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet to run after a shadow."26 Newton was more aggressive toward John Flamsteed. Flamsteed, who was Astronomer Royal, was... | |
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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. 
