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Temporis calendarium; or An almanack - Page 15
by William Rogerson - 1828 - 1848 pages
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Every Saturday

1872 - 740 pages
...leaves his fame to after ages in these noble words : " The book is written : to be read either DOW or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait...century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand yean fur an observer." And when a yet greater than Kepler was bringing to iti final issue that grandest...
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The Quadrature and Geometry of the Circle Demonstrated

James Smith - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 330 pages
...I will indulge my sacred fury ! If you forgive me, I rejoice : if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer !" Were this not...
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Nature, Volume 6

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1872 - 574 pages
...the applause of his contemporaries, but leaves his fame to after «ees ill these noble words : — "The book is written ; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait » century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. " And when a yet greater...
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On the inductive philosophy, a discourse

Arthur Elley Finch - 1872 - 132 pages
...' (in which he details the discovery of his third law of the planetary motions), says, ' To be read now, or by posterity, I care not which ; it may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer.9 Kepler was a most remarkable character; among...
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On the Inductive Philosophy, Including a Parallel Between Lord Bacon and A ...

A. Elley Finch - Philosophy - 1872 - 136 pages
...' (in which he details the discovery of his third law of the planetary motions), says, ' To be read now, or by posterity, I care not which ; it may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer.2 Kepler was a most remarkable character; among...
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Sanders' Union Fifth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers (Secondary) - 1872 - 490 pages
...bcen the object of his ineessant pursuit. He was almost frantic with joy, and exclaimed, — " Tho die is cast ! The book is written to be read, either now or by postcrity, I care not which ! It may well wait a century for a reader, a3 God has waited six thousand...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...claiming the applause of his contemporaries, but leaves his fame to after ages in these noble words : " The book is written ; to be read either now or by...has waited six " thousand years for an observer." And when a yet greater than Kepler was bringing to its final issuo that grandest of all Scientific...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 42

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1873 - 902 pages
...claiming the applause of his contemporaries, but leaves his fame to after ages in these noble words : " The book is written ; to be read either now or by...century for a reader, as God has waited six " thousand } r ears for an observer." Though it is with the Intellectual Representation of Nature which wo call...
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A New Manual of the Elements of Astronomy: Descriptive and Mathematical ...

Henry Kiddle - 1873 - 300 pages
...will indulge in my sacred fury. If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, — to be read either...posterity, I care not which : it may well wait a century fur a trader, as God has waited six thonsand years for an interpreter of his works." Sir John Herschel...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Ibid. Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. The Last Conqueror. Stanza I. JOHN KEPLER. 1571-1630. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. From Brewster's Martyrs of Scienee, p. 197. 1 Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit....
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