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. The World of Comets - Síđa 102eftir Amédée Guillemin - 1877 - 548 síđurHeildartexta - Um bókina
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1910 - 344 síđur
...the elements in these three comets which would be next to a miracle if they were all different. . . . Wherefore, if according to what we have already said, it should return again in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1911 - 394 síđur
...wrote thus : — " If it should return according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this...first discovered by an Englishman." Posterity has not refused to admit this fact, and the name of Halley has ever since been associated with the comet.... | |
| George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 566 síđur
...for it, and he said: "If it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." And posterity has not forgotten it, even now, more than two hundred years afterward, for the history... | |
| Scientific Instrument Manufacturers' Association of Great Britain - 1921 - 378 síđur
...death. " Wherefore, if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." When only 21 years of age he undertook a voyage to St. Helena in order to determine the places of the... | |
| Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1922 - 326 síđur
...his theory, adding: "If it should return according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." The name the comet bears fully shows that posterity, after verifying the truth of Halley 's prophecy,... | |
| Mary Proctor - 1926 - 262 síđur
...of 1682, he said: "If it should return according to our predictions about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was certainly the most extraordinary prediction ever made, for cometary investigations were then... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1906 - 956 síđur
...date of its return, and he concludes his argument with a blend of confidence and patriotism : — ' Wherefore if according to what we have already said...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Enylithman.' Such was Hnlley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1905 - 928 síđur
...date of its return, and he concludes his argument with a blend of confidence and patriotism : — ' Wherefore if according to what we have already said...refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by on Enyliehman.' Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,... | |
| 1909 - 664 síđur
...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 of gravitation,... | |
| Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White - 1971 - 484 síđur
...confidently identified his comet with those that had appeared in 1305, 1380 and 1456 and remarked, "wherefore if according to what we have already said...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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