Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 228
ingmathematicians from the beginning of the world to the time whenNewton lived, what he had done was much the better half. ThePrincipia will ever remain a monument of the profound genius whichrevealed to us tlie greatest law of the universe, are the words of La-place. That work stands ])re-cmincnt… … Statue of Sir Isaac Newton, at Grantham. braces, confers honor upon the intellect of man. Lagrange, we aretold by DAlembert, was wont to describe Newton as the greatest gen-ius that ever existed; but to add how fortunate he was also, be-cause there can only once be found a system of the universe to…
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