The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 184
g and grazing. It isrelated that when he went to market with any of theproduce of the farm, he would leave all the business ofdisposing of the produce to a servant who accompaniedhim; and that, in time, he w^ould stop when half-way tothe market and pore over books while waiting the returnof his… … SIR ISAAC NEWTON.(From the original by Vanderbank.) (179) Newtons earlier discoveries. 181 lie would never make a farmer, and thereupon deter-mined to give him an education. He entered CambridgeUniversity in 1661, and while there displayed a most sur-prising aptitude for mathematics; and it was…
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