 | English literature - 1836 - 558 pages
...(in one of them) cost me above two months' hard labour, which I should never have undertaken but on your account, and which I told you I undertook, that...prospect of obtaining them, or of getting your synopses verified, I despaired of compassing the moon's theory, and had thoughts of giving it over as a thing... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Letter writing - 1850 - 456 pages
...particularly mentions the table of refractions, which he says } cost me above two months' hard labour which I should never have undertaken but upon your...obtaining them* or of getting your synopses rectified, I despaired of compassing the moon's theory, and had thoughts of giving it over as impracticable, and... | |
 | Isaac Newton, J. Edleston - Letter writing - 1850 - 436 pages
...particularly mentions the table of refractions, which he says ) cost me above two months' hard labour which I should never have undertaken but upon your...obtaining them* or of getting your synopses rectified, I despaired of compassing the moon's theory, and had thoughts of giving it over as impracticable, and... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...value than many observations, and what (in one of them) contains more than two months' hard labour, which I should never have undertaken but upon your...despaired of compassing the moon's theory, and had thought of giving it over as a thing impracticable, and occasionally told a friend so, who then made... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 pages
...value than many observations, and what (in one of them) contains more than two months' hard labour, which I should never have undertaken but upon your...prospect of obtaining them, or of getting your synopses rectified,1 I despaired of compassing the moon's theory, and had thought of giving it over as a thing... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...months' hard labour, which I should never have undertaken but on your account, ami which I told you 1 undertook that I might have something to return you for the observations you then gave me hope of, and yet when I had done saw no prospect of obtaining them, or of getting your synopses reetiiied,... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...cost me above two months hard labour wch I should never have undertaken but upon your account, & w°h I told you I undertook that I might have something...you for the Observations you then gave me hopes of, & yet when I had done saw no prospect of obteining them or of getting your Synopses rectified, I despaired... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - Science - 1997 - 1194 pages
...of more value then many Observations and what (in one of them1) cost me above two months hard labour which I should never have undertaken but upon your...hopes of, and yet when I had done saw no prospect of obteining them or of getting your Synopses rectified2. 1 despaired of compassing the Moons Theory,... | |
 | Adrian Johns - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 780 pages
...solving such problems as atmospheric refraction. He had undertaken such work, Newton declared, only "that I might have something to return you for the Observations you then gave me hopes of" — a kind of prospective reciprocity. But, contrary to the implication of his letter to Wallis, Flamsteed... | |
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... hard labour, which I should never have undertaken but upon your account, and which I told you I undertook that I might have something to return you for the observations you then gave me hopes of, and yet, when I had done, saw no prospect of obtaining... 