A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Bind 1J. W. Parker, 1848 - 527 sider |
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... Zeal of Sir Hans Sloane Savery exhibits his Steam - engine - Presents Drawing of it to the Society - Receives a Certificate - Performance of the Engine - Death of Hooke - His interest in the Society - His design THE FIRST VOLUME . xvii.
... Zeal of Sir Hans Sloane Savery exhibits his Steam - engine - Presents Drawing of it to the Society - Receives a Certificate - Performance of the Engine - Death of Hooke - His interest in the Society - His design THE FIRST VOLUME . xvii.
Side xviii
Charles Richard Weld. Hooke - His interest in the Society - His design of endowing the Society -His Wealth - Proposal to rebuild Gresham College - Wren furnishes plan of rooms for the Society - Scheme abandoned - The Society resolve on ...
Charles Richard Weld. Hooke - His interest in the Society - His design of endowing the Society -His Wealth - Proposal to rebuild Gresham College - Wren furnishes plan of rooms for the Society - Scheme abandoned - The Society resolve on ...
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... interest it was to keep the literary treasures to them- selves , as the transcribing of them was a source of considerable emolument . Poggio , a contemporary of Petrarch , has given us a melancholy account of the barbarous ignorance of ...
... interest it was to keep the literary treasures to them- selves , as the transcribing of them was a source of considerable emolument . Poggio , a contemporary of Petrarch , has given us a melancholy account of the barbarous ignorance of ...
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... interest ' . " OCTOBER 23 , 1651 . ORdered , " 1. That no man be admitted , but with the consent of the major part of the company . " 2. That the votes for admission ( to the intent they may be free , and without prejudice , ) be given ...
... interest ' . " OCTOBER 23 , 1651 . ORdered , " 1. That no man be admitted , but with the consent of the major part of the company . " 2. That the votes for admission ( to the intent they may be free , and without prejudice , ) be given ...
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... interest , pro- pounded by me , and to redeem the time to the noblest purposes , I am thankfully to acknowledge , that as to the common forms of living in the world , I have little reason to be displeased at my present condition , in ...
... interest , pro- pounded by me , and to redeem the time to the noblest purposes , I am thankfully to acknowledge , that as to the common forms of living in the world , I have little reason to be displeased at my present condition , in ...
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Academy afterwards amongst appears appointed archives Arundel House astronomical Bacon Bishop of Salisbury Boyle called Charles Charter Committee communicated considerable Council curious desired Diary discourse discoveries Duke Earl elected eminent England entitled establishment Evelyn experiments favour Fellows Flamsteed give grant Gresham College Halley hath honour Hooke institution instruments interest invention Jewel House John Hoskyns Journal-book King knowledge labours learned Leibnitz letter Library London Lord Brouncker Lord Macclesfield Mace Majesty Majesty's Martin Folkes Matthew Wren Meeting ment Museum nature noble observations Observatory occasion Oldenburg Oxford papers Parliament Pepys period persons Philosophical Transactions present President printed Professor proposed published received record Register-book remarkable resolved Robert Boyle Royal Society says scientific Secretary sent shew Sir Hans Sloane Sir John Sir Robert Moray Society's Sprat Telescope thereof things tion unto volume weekly Wilkins Wren writing
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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...