...body "an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the telescope : and 1 doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." The communication followed soon after, giving an account of the principal experiments already described....

...account of a philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature. I desire also that since I am elected fellow of your honourable society, you would, in a word or two,...

...account of a philosophical discovery, which induced me to the making of the said telescope, and which I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature. I desire also that since I am elected fellow of your honourable society, you would, in a word or two,...

...(announces his intention of sending to the Royal Society " an account of a philosophical discovery," " being the oddest, if not the most considerable detection,...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature," viz. the composition of light). 29. Letter to Oldenburg on the proportions of arsenic and bell-metal...

...(announces his intention of sending to the Royal Society " an account of a philosophical discovery," " being the oddest, if not the most considerable detection,...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature," viz. the composition of light). 29. Letter to Oldenburg on the proportions of arsenic and bell-metal...

...white light, and he described this discovery a few years niterwards, in a letter to a friend, аз " in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." Let us pause here a moment to explain clearly what this " detection" or discovery amounted to, premising...

...paper on the different refrangibilities of the rays of light, which he quaintly characterised as ' the oddest if not the most considerable detection...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.' It is remarkable that this, the most distinctly original of all Newton's discoveries, was the one which...

...paper on the different refrangibilities of the rays of light, which he quaintly characterised as ' the oddest if .not the most considerable detection...hitherto been .made in ,the operations of nature.' It is remarkable that this, .the most distinctly original of all Newton's discoveries, was the one...

...to ofier a communication to that Society respecting his optical analysis, he spoke of it as " being the oddest if not the most considerable detection...hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature." (BiKCH's History of the Royal Society. 1757: vol. in, p. 6.) Although a century and a quarter elapsed...

...rays, which in this age is not regarded with any extraordinary curiosity, was announced by Newton as " the oddest, if not the most considerable, detection...hath hitherto been made in the operations of Nature." It is well also to bear in mind the words of Comte, that " the phenomena of light will always constitute...