A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Bind 1J. W. Parker, 1848 - 527 sider |
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... Martin Folkes elected President Page 434 CHAPTER XVII . Memoir of Martin Folkes - His Acquirements more Literary than Scientific -Sir John Hill's Review of the Royal Society - Death of Halley - For- mation of Royal Society Club ...
... Martin Folkes elected President Page 434 CHAPTER XVII . Memoir of Martin Folkes - His Acquirements more Literary than Scientific -Sir John Hill's Review of the Royal Society - Death of Halley - For- mation of Royal Society Club ...
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... Martin Folkes , Southampton Street , Covent Garden ..... John Keill , Gray's Inn Peter Le Neve , Herald's Office Earl of Pembroke , St. James's Square Frederick Slare , Black Lion , Holborn Abraham de Moivre , Slaughter's Coffee House ...
... Martin Folkes , Southampton Street , Covent Garden ..... John Keill , Gray's Inn Peter Le Neve , Herald's Office Earl of Pembroke , St. James's Square Frederick Slare , Black Lion , Holborn Abraham de Moivre , Slaughter's Coffee House ...
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... Martin Folkes elected President . N IN 1725-1745 . 1725 the Society gave a great impulse to the study of Meteorology , by sending barometers and thermometers to several of their correspondents abroad , who professed their willingness to ...
... Martin Folkes elected President . N IN 1725-1745 . 1725 the Society gave a great impulse to the study of Meteorology , by sending barometers and thermometers to several of their correspondents abroad , who professed their willingness to ...
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... Martin Folkes . He continued to exercise all his official duties with the greatest zeal , until he arrived at the age of four- score , when he formed the resolution of quitting the service of the public , and of living in tranquillity ...
... Martin Folkes . He continued to exercise all his official duties with the greatest zeal , until he arrived at the age of four- score , when he formed the resolution of quitting the service of the public , and of living in tranquillity ...
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... Martin Folkes , Esq . , V. P. , stated at a Meeting of Council , that he was charged with a message from the President , who desired him to bear his respects to them , and to acquaint them that the weakness in his limbs , which has now ...
... Martin Folkes , Esq . , V. P. , stated at a Meeting of Council , that he was charged with a message from the President , who desired him to bear his respects to them , and to acquaint them that the weakness in his limbs , which has now ...
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Side 146 - The business and design of the Royal Society is — To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practises, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments — (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick or Logick...
Side 32 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Side 309 - Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.
Side 372 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
Side 129 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds, and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of nature's sea : The work he did we ought t...
Side 33 - Ireland, though not so constantly, at the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins, then warden of Wadham College; and after his removal to Trinity College in Cambridge, at the lodgings of the honourable Mr. Robert Boyle, then resident for divers years in Oxford.
Side 88 - The success was, that within five weeks' space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Side 59 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things'; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Side 60 - THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men ; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days
Side 358 - It raises water more than forty geometrical feet, by the power of one man onlv ; and in a very short space of time will draw up four vessels of water through a tube or channel not more than a span in width...