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... NEWTON ( FORMERL ASSUBL SIR ISAAC NEWTON . 7. ENSIS UNIV ERSITATIS LUX MDC SIGILLUM * SIGILLUM INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RSITATIS INDIANENSIS LUX ANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SIGILLUM CCXX ww VERITAS INDIANEN UNI INDIANA UNIVERSITY ...
... NEWTON ( FORMERL ASSUBL SIR ISAAC NEWTON . 7. ENSIS UNIV ERSITATIS LUX MDC SIGILLUM * SIGILLUM INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RSITATIS INDIANENSIS LUX ANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SIGILLUM CCXX ww VERITAS INDIANEN UNI INDIANA UNIVERSITY ...
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George Forbes. WA NEWTON ( FORMERL ASSUBL SIR ISAAC NEWTON . 7. JOH AUT HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY BY GEORGE FORBES , M.A. , F.R.S.. ( From the bust by Roubiliac in Trinity College , Cambridge . ) CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and ...
George Forbes. WA NEWTON ( FORMERL ASSUBL SIR ISAAC NEWTON . 7. JOH AUT HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY BY GEORGE FORBES , M.A. , F.R.S.. ( From the bust by Roubiliac in Trinity College , Cambridge . ) CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and ...
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... NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 60 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS - HERSCHEL , PIAZZI , ADAMS , AND LE VERRIER- 64 BOOK III . OBSERVATION IO ...
... NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 60 9. DISCOVERY OF NEW PLANETS - HERSCHEL , PIAZZI , ADAMS , AND LE VERRIER- 64 BOOK III . OBSERVATION IO ...
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... Newton converted the point of view into a dynamical one . Aristotle's mental capacity to understand the meaning of facts or to criticise a train of reasoning may have been equal to that of Kepler or Newton , but the point of view was ...
... Newton converted the point of view into a dynamical one . Aristotle's mental capacity to understand the meaning of facts or to criticise a train of reasoning may have been equal to that of Kepler or Newton , but the point of view was ...
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... Newton's analysis to enable people to see that , so far as planetary orbits are concerned , Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical ...
... Newton's analysis to enable people to see that , so far as planetary orbits are concerned , Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical ...
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