If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 29by Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...object of his incessant labours. "The die is cast," he said, " the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God waited for six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome... | |
| Edward John Chalmers Morton - Astronomers - 1882 - 370 pages
...bear it. For the die is cast, the book is written, to be read now or by posterity ; I care not. I can well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for a discoverer." CHAPTER V. ON GALILEO AND THE LAWS OF MOTION. So far we have considered the work of... | |
| Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1884 - 360 pages
...months, until, once more, his patience triumphed, and he reached (1618) the third law — The squares of the times of revolution of the planets about the sun...God has waited six thousand years for an observer. \ Galileo. — Contemporary with Kepler was the great Florentine philosopher, Galileo. He discovered... | |
| John Lord - History - 1884 - 524 pages
...you are angry, it is all the same to me. The die is cast; the book is written, — to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." We do not see this sublime repose in the attitude... | |
| Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity — I care not which. It may well...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science... | |
| Questions and answers - 1885 - 580 pages
...with joy, when he discovered his Third Law: " The die is cast, the book is written to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.' Archimedes is said to have left his bath and... | |
| 1885 - 608 pages
...the Celestial Motions,' he exclaimed, ' The die is cast — the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 6,000 years for an interpreter of His works.' But if He, who is the First Cause of... | |
| 1886 - 572 pages
...exclaimed: "Nothing holds me ! I will indulge my sacred fury ! The hook is written to be read either now or by posterity; I care not which ! It may well wait a century for a reader, since God lias waited 6,000 years for an observer." If Kepler was the minister of science, Agassiz wni her missionary.... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - German literature - 1887 - 348 pages
...prophet-like saying of his, never surpassed for sublimity by any uninspired utterance of man's: "My book may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Leibnitz's infancy was rocked by the dying throes of the thirty years' earthquake that shook Germany;... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - German literature - 1887 - 348 pages
...prophet-like saying of his, never surpassed for sublimity by any uninspired utterance of man's: "My book may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Leibnitz's infancy was rocked by the dying throes of the thirty years' earthquake that shook Germany;... | |
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