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Memoires of the Life,writings, and Discoveries
Memoires of the Lifewritings and Discoveries Author:SIR ISAAC NEWTON General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. NEWTON WRITES NOTES ON KINKHUYSEN? S ALGEBRA -- AND ON HARMONIC AND INFINITE SERIES -- DELIVERS OPTICAL LECTURES AT CAMBRIDGE -- IS ELECTED A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY -- COMMUNICATES TO THEM HIS DISCOVERIES ON THE DIFFERENT REFRANGIBILITY AND NATURE OF LIGHT -- POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THEM -- THEY INVOLVE HIM IN VARIOUS CONTROVERSIES -- HIS DISPUTE WITH PARDIES -- WITH LINUS -- WITH GASCOIGNE AND LUCAS -- THE INFLUENCE OF THESE DISPUTES ON HIS MIND -- HIS CONTROVERSY WITH DR. HOOKE AND MONSIEUR HUYGENS, ARISING FROM THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE UNDULATING THEORY OF LIGHT -- HARASSED WITH THESE DISCUSSIONS HE RESOLVES TO PUBLISH NOTHING MORE ON OPTICS -- INTIMATES TO OLDENBURG HIS RESOLUTION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE ROYAL SOCIETY FROM HIS INABILITY TO MAKE THE WEEKLY PAYMENTS -- THE COUNCIL AGREE TO DISPENSE WITH THESE PAYMENTS -- HE IS ALLOWED BY A ROYAL GRANT TO HOLD HIS FELLOWSHIP ALONG WITH THE LUCASIAN CHAIR WITHOUT TAKING ORDERS -- HARDSHIP OF HIS SITUATION IN BEING OBLIGED TO PLEAD POVERTY TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY -- DRAWS UP A SCHEME FOR EXTENDING THE ROYAL SOCIETY, BY PAYING CERTAIN OF ITS MEMBERS -- THE SCHEME WAS FOUND AMONG HIS PAPERS -- SOUNDNESS OF HIS VIEWS RELATIVE TO THE ENDOWMENT OF SCIENCE BY THE NATION -- ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THEM. While Newton was constructing his Reflecting Telescope, and discussing with Gregory and others the question of its superiority to instruments of the Gregorian and Cassegrainian form, his mind was directed to a variety of other subjects. Dr. Barrow had requested him, through Collins, to write some notes to be appended to a Latin translation from the Dutch...« less