 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
 | Science - 1909 - 664 pages
...planet. He wrote: "Wherefore, if it should return according to our predictions about the year 175S. impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was not only a great advance in astronomy and important in its relation to the theory... | |
 | Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White - Technology & Engineering - 1971 - 484 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."2 No one could be certain he was right, much less that it might not succumb to a churlish... | |
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