 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
 | Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 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 honoured his... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Social Science - 1973 - 639 pages
...comet that "if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 [as of course it did], impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."21 Or to move abruptly to the present, we see the Russians, now that they have taken a... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Social Science - 1973 - 639 pages
...nation invents, only for the neglect to publish them ourselves." So, also, Halley says of his comet that "if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 [as of course it did], impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered... | |
 | Astrophysics - 1965 - 586 pages
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