| Henry Grattan Guinness - 1896 - 586 páginas
...Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." At the close of his monumental work, " The Principia," he says : " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets,...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things — not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all, ... a Being... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 472 páginas
...you a good journey, and God be with you. FROM 'MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES ' Book iii. of the 'Principia' THIS most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 702 páginas
...you a good journey, and God be with you. FROM MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES) Book iii. of the ' Principia ' THIS most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 páginas
...religious adoration wMch is worthy of being engraved upon the memory of every student of natural science. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| 1898 - 532 páginas
...considered the greatest work of the kind which has ever appeared. His conclusion is as follows : " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." Lord Kelvin is one of the most distinguished scientific men of the present day. It was through him... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 páginas
...us with His blood, and made us kings and priests. FROM MATHEMATICAL (Book iii. of the " Principia.") THIS most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| Sir John Ambrose Fleming - 1904 - 88 páginas
...exact phrases used in the Principia, omitting a few interconnecting sentences, are as follows : — "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being governs all things not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all, and on account... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1911 - 688 páginas
...greatest distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and...dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1912 - 342 páginas
...greatest distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and...dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
| 1877 - 776 páginas
...greatest mathematicians of their respective times. Newton viewed the mechanism of the world and exclaimed, "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being ! " Laplace looked upon the same mechanism and declared, "I have no need of such an hypothesis." The... | |
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