We are sorry to see this, because we have great expectations from the labours of this gentleman in the field of harmonics, and his late work is rich in refined and valuable matter. We presume humbly to recommend to him attention to his own admonitions... A System of Mechanical Philosophy - Síða 409eftir John Robison - 1822 - 50 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
| William Nicholson - 1802 - 434 síður
...gentleman in the field of harmonics, and his late work is rich in refined and valuable matter. We prefume humbly to recommend to him attention to his own admonitions...Newton, Barrow, and other eminent mathematicians.". Encyclop. Brit. Suppl. Art. Temperament, p. 652. According therefore to the author of this article,... | |
| George Peacock - 1855 - 544 síður
...results useless and impracticable. We are sorry to see this, because we have great expectations from the labours of this gentleman in the field of harmonics,...Newton, Barrow, and Other eminent mathematicians." The admonitory criticism to which Dr. Robison refers, and partially quotes, appeared in the third of... | |
| George Peacock - 1855 - 544 síður
...results useless and impracticable. We are sorry to see this, because we have great expectations from the labours of this gentleman in the field of harmonics,...ingenious gentleman, who, he thinks, proceeded too fer in animadverting on the writings of Newton, Barrow, and other eminent mathematicians." The admonitory... | |
| 1855 - 622 síður
...superior to every other. In defending himself, Professor Robison " humbly recommends to Dr. Young, attention to his own admonitions to a very young and...Newton, Barrow, and other eminent mathematicians." In a treatise on Cycloiclal Curves, here referred to, Dr. Young had criticised a paper on Porisms,... | |
| Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 síður
...physicist. In an article on 'Temperament' in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica he wrote: We are surprised to see this work of Dr Smith greatly undervalued...of Newton, Barrow and other eminent mathematicians. The reference here is to an essay published by Young in the same year, 1800, in the British Magazine,... | |
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