A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England: From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second |
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allso analiticks assured freind atque beinge Birch Bodl booke Brit Cartes CAVENDISH TO JOHN CAVENDYSSHE College coppies copy demonstrated desire Diophantus Doctor Jungius doth doute ejus England eyther favour flyinge freind to serve give glass hand hath heere HENRY HENRY BRIGGS Hobbes hope hower humble illa illud invention JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL JOHN DEE JOHN PELL king's Lansd letter London Longomontanus LORD BURGHLEY lordship Majestie manuscript mathematicians maye meanes mihi motion mynde myne ordynance Orig papers paragrapho printed quæ quod refraction remaine Your assured Richard Willis right honorable Samuel Morland sent Sethus Calvisius shew shotte SIR CHARLES CAVENDISH sunt suppose thankes theise ther thereof thing thinke Thomas Digges THOMAS HARRIOT THOMAS LYDYAT tion treatise trouble twoe tyme Vieta's WARNER waye Wellingor wherein William WILLIAM LOWER wisshing wolde worcke Worthie Sir write
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Page 80 - I am not a little afraid that all Mr. Warner's papers, and no small share of my labours therein, are seazed upon, and most unmathematically divided between the sequestrators and creditors.
Page 36 - I will speak onely of things performed by art and nature, wherein shall be nothing magical : and first by the figuration of art, there may be made instruments of navigation without men to rowe in them, aa great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steere them, and they aTia.11 sayle far more swiftly than if they were full of men : also chariots that shall move with an unspeakable force, without any living creature to stirre them.
Page 2 - Honour that this I Dare saye without arrogancie, that to translate the variable historic of Plinie into our toonge, I wolde be ashamed to borowe so muche of the Latine as he Dothe of the Greke, althowgh the Latine toonge be accompted ryche, and the Englysshe indigent and barbarous, as it hathe byn in tyme past, muche more than it nowe is, before it was enriched and amplified by sundry bookes in manner of all artes translated owt of Latine and other toonges into Englysshe.10 115.
Page 17 - Majestic and this realme, if I will do the best I can at my own costis and chargis, to discover, and deliver true profe of a myne, vayn, or owre of gold, or silver, in some one place of her graces kingdoms and dominions, to her graces onely use; in respect, I mean, of any my demaund or part to be had therof.
Page 128 - Members. X. That in the absence of the President and Director, the Council at their Meetings shall elect a Chairman, who shall have a casting vote in case of equality of numbers, and shall also retain his right to vote upon all questions submitted to the Council.
Page 16 - ... premisses, one part of my present sute unto your honor is that, by your lordships wisdome, the Queens Majestie may be induced to think somwhat favorably (as very many other, noble and lerned, of forrayn lands do) of my great travailes, patience, constancy, costs, and credit, in matters philosophicall and mathematicall: and thereuppon, in the ende of my carefull race, to let some token of her Majesties royall good affection procede toward me, whome, your lordship knoweth (or may know) that emperors,...
Page 80 - Analogickes, of which you desire to know whether they be printed. You remember that his papers were given to his kinsman, a merchant in London, who sent his partner to bury the old man...
Page 14 - Royall; whereby, may have bin and are made liable to dispend of their owne yerely, thre, fowre, five, &c. of hundred pownds. To compare with any of them in desert publik or lerning, I neyther dare, nor justly can. But in zeale to the best lerning and knowledg, and in incredible toyle of body and mynde, very many yeres therfore onely endured: I know most assuredly that this land never bred any man, whose accownt therin can evidently be proved greater than myne. I trust that this my simple speche,...
Page 128 - That the Accompts of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Society shall be audited annually by three Auditors, to be elected at the General Meetings, and that the Report of the Auditors, with an Abstract of the Accompts, shall be published.
Page 17 - ... charge : but three quarters of them I understand to have byn taken away by diverse (eyther taylors, or others, in tymes past). Now my fantasie is that, in som of them will be some mention made of noblemen of those dayes, whereby (eyther for chronicle or pedigree) som good matter may be collected out of them by me (at my leysor) by the way of a recreation.