Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. History of Astronomy - Page 79by George Forbes - 1909 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Stawell Ball - Astronomers - 1895 - 400 pages
...the fulfilment of his prediction, but he says : " If it should return, according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was, indeed, a remarkable prediction of an event to occur fifty-three years after... | |
| Astronomy - 1905 - 512 pages
...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 904 pages
...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Such was Ilalley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1906 - 932 pages
...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.' Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Comets - 1909 - 446 pages
...Finally, when he had matured his labours, he thus plaintively wrote on the subject : — " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction about...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." On this Hind judiciously remarked as follows : — " Xor has posterity attempted to deprive... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Comets - 1909 - 318 pages
...Finally, when he had matured his labours, he thus plaintively wrote on the subject: — "Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction about...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." On this Hind judiciously remarked as follows : — " Nor has posterity attempted to deprive... | |
| 1909 - 858 pages
..."Wherefore, if according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758. candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Englishmen have with just pride acknowledged Halley's claim, and science has honored his... | |
| United States - 1909 - 1110 pages
...Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." When the comet blazed forth on Christmas day, 1758, it was forever shorn of the dreadful... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1910 - 344 pages
.... . . Wherefore, if according to what we have already said, it should return again in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." But posterity and science have not forgotten his claim, for they have given his name to... | |
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