 | Joseph Victor Collins - 1913 - 362 pages
...quarter of an hour elapsed with each looking at the other and not speaking a word. Then. Briggs said, " My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...you came first to think of this most excellent help in astronomy; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody found it out before, when now known... | |
 | 1894 - 348 pages
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 | Henry Lewis Rietz, Arthur Robert Crathorne, Edson Homer Taylor - 1915 - 266 pages
...quarter hour was spent, each beholding the other without saying a word. Finally Briggs spoke as follows: "My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this excellent help in astronomy, viz., the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder... | |
 | Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve - 1919 - 522 pages
...speechless, observing each other for almost a quarter of an hour. At last Briggs spoke as follows : " My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...you came first to think of this most excellent help in astronomy, namely, the logarithms, but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody found it... | |
 | Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve - 1919 - 520 pages
...speechless, observing each other for almost a quarter of an hour. At last Briggs spoke as follows : " My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you cam6 first to think of this most excellent help in astronomy, namely, the logarithms, but, my lord,... | |
 | Edward Ira Edgerton, Perry Amherst Carpenter - 1924 - 490 pages
...elapsed while each looked at the other and neither spoke a word. Finally Briggs spoke as follows : " My Lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this excellent help in astronomy, viz., logarithms ; but, my Lord, being by you found out, I wonder why... | |
 | Edward Ira Edgerton, Perry Amherst Carpenter - 1925 - 398 pages
...elapsed while each looked at the other and neither spoke a word. Finally Briggs spoke as follows : " My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely...of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this excellent help in astronomy, viz., logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder why... | |
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My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out,... 
