 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 392 pages
...dated November z8, 1679." Newton refers to this matter again in a letter to Halley, June zo, 1688: "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...square of ,he distance. Stung by the prospect of a new war, he wrote to Halley : " Philosophy is sudi an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as...to do with her. I found it so formerly ; and now I am no sooner come near her again, than she jives me warning." There is certainly a want f heroism in... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864 - 432 pages
...Principia. " Philosophy," he said, " is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as well be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again but she gives me warning." In the controversy relative to his optical... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - 1977 - 328 pages
...congratulate himself on having been such a sly Odysseus; but then Newton added, as if an afterthought, "The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigous lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. I found it so... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1962 - 452 pages
...Newton announced and killed the third book: The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such a litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged...to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her again, but she gives me warning. The reasons for this design have never... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 pages
...exasperation, all the pent-up tension of a year and a half of stupendous and unremitting toil burst out. "Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again but... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 pages
...think him a man of a strange unsociable temper. . . . Philosophy [he lamented, with a cry of anguish] is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with her. He concluded his complaint by threatening to suppress Book III. Since... | |
 | Douglas M. Campbell, John C. Higgins - 1984 - 324 pages
...the publication of the Principia. Writing to Halley on June 20, 1688, he says, "Philosophy [science] is such an impertinently litigious Lady, that a man had as good be engaged to lawsuits, as to have to do with her. I found it so formerly, and now I am no sooner come near her... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 pages
...System of the World" as the third book of the Prineipia, Newton explained: "The third I now designe to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in Law suits as have to do with . . . her. I found it so formerly & now I no sooner come near her again... | |
 | Vladimir Zalmanovich Parton, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Morozov - 1989 - 316 pages
...and Dr. Halley have severally ob8) He writes in one of his letters in June 1686: ". . . The third l now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently...litigious Lady that a man had as good be engaged in l-aw suits as have to do with her. 1 found it so formerly and now l no sooner come near her again but... | |
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The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her. 
