 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 in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 29by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Fisher - Mathematics - 1854 - 156 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 wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." What is the third Law ? Let us recapitulate.... | |
 | 1854 - 586 pages
...frenzy; I triumph over mankind ! The die is cast ; the book is written — to be read either nowor by posterity; I care not which. It may well wait a century for a read-.т, as God has Ken waiting six thousand years for un observer." What a glorious spectacle is... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...admirable to gaze on, burst out upon 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 interpreter of his works." I As the planes of the orbits... | |
 | Edward Higginson - Astronomy - 1855 - 124 pages
...the devout annals of Science, writes thus to a friend : " 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." And Galileo was Kepler's contemporary, and his... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...out upon me. I will triumph over mankind. 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, when God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Nor yet was the hill of difficulty fully ascended,... | |
 | 1862 - 710 pages
...appropriating " the pathetic words of the immortal Kepler, — ' The die is cast, the book is written, either to be read now or by posterity ; I care not which....wait a century for a reader, since God has waited 6000 years for an observer.' " (P. 30.) But it is not our intention to add our faggot to his pyre.... | |
 | 1862 - 710 pages
...appropriating " the pathetic words of the immortal Kepler,—' The die is cast, the book is written, either to be read now or by posterity ; I care not which....wait a century for a reader, since God has waited 6000 years for an observer.' " (P. 30.) But it is not our intention to add our faggot to his pyre.... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - Christianity - 1864 - 476 pages
...my sacred fury! I triumph over mankind! 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 been waiting six thousand years for an observer!" And yet this man was no philosopher, some... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - Essays - 1864 - 424 pages
...sacred fury ! I triumph over mankind ! 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 been waiting six thousand years for an observer !' And yet this man was no philosopher,... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Biography - 1864 - 482 pages
...it. The die is cast ; the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. I may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for a discoverer."* But family griefs were added to pecuniary embarrassment. Kepler's mother was a woman... | |
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