 ... lest any single observer should be deprived by the intervention of clouds of a sight which I know not whether any man living in this or the next age will ever see again, and on which depends the certain and adequate solution of a problem the most...  The Story of the Heavens - Síða 151eftir Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 551 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | James Ferguson - 1809 - 574 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at any other time not to be attained to. I recommend it, therefore, again and again, to those...opportunity of observing these things, that they would rememher this my admonition, and diligently apply themselves with all their might to the making of... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 síður
...and on which depends the certain and" adequate solution of a problem the most noble in he sciences. " I recommend it, therefore, again and again, to those curious Astronomers, who may have an opportunity of observing these things when I am dead, that they would remember these admonitions,... | |
 | 1818 - 400 síður
...inhabitants then living could expect to see more than another time ; and evinces his earnestness by adding, ' I recommend it therefore, again and again, to those curious astronomers who may have an opportunity of observing these things when I am dead, that they would remember these admonitions,... | |
 | 1873 - 758 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at any other time not to be attained to. I recommend it, therefore, again and again to those...and diligently apply themselves with all their might to the making this observation ; and I earnestly wish them all imaginable success ; in the first place... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 348 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at any other time not to be attained to. I recommend it therefore again and again to those...diligently apply themselves with all their might in making this observation, and I earnestly wish them all imaginable success : in the first place, that they... | |
 | Samuel Jenkins Johnson - 1874 - 212 síður
...commend it, therefore, again and again to those curious scrutinizers of the stars, who, when I am gone, will have an opportunity of observing these things, that they would remember this my admonition." Early in the morning, wheu every one was prepared for the transit, the sky \vas so cloudy as to render... | |
 | 1878 - 818 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at any other time not to be attained to. I recommend it, therefore, again and again to those...and diligently apply themselves with all their might to the making this observation ; and I earnestly wish them all imaginable success ; in the first place,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 438 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at any other times not to be attained to. I recommend it therefore again and again 'to those...diligently apply themselves with all their might in making this observation ; and 1 earnestly wish them all imaginable success; in the first-place that they may... | |
 | J. C. Beaglehole - 1992 - 828 síður
...certain and adequate solution of a problem the most noble, and at other times not to be attained to. I recommend it therefore again and again to those...they would remember this, my admonition . . . and I earnestly wish them all imaginable success.'1 Joseph Nicolas Delisle, one of the elders of a large... | |
 | Michael J. de F. Maunder, Patrick Moore - 2000 - 180 síður
...From these durations, it will be mathematically possible to obtain the solar parallax. He continues: "I recommend it therefore again and again to those...will have an opportunity of observing these things." Halley's reasoning is straightforward enough. The main problem lay in making the observations, because... | |
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