1835, ISBN: 9780217729321

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: public discussion in 1835, by Mr. Francis Baily. Finding in Flamsteed's own manuscripts and autobiography a number of statements injurious to the characters of Newton and Halley, Mr. Baily unwisely published what he called an ' Account of the Life of Flamsteed, ' which involved in effect an ex parte and unjust attack upon those eminent men. In 1837 Mr. Baily published a supplement, in which he stated that he had ' sought in vain for documents which might tend either to extenuate or explain the conduct of Newton and Halley.' He cannot have searched very carefully, for such documents existed precisely where one would have expected to find them, namely, among Sir Isaac Newton's papers. Among these papers Sir David Brewster discovered a series of letters and other documents, completely exculpating Newton and Halley from the charges rashly brought against them by Mr. Baily, and placing the character of Flamsteed, their calumniator, in a very unfavourable light. Apparently the sole cause of Flamsteed's delay in the first instance, and anger with Newton and Halley in the second, was greed of money. Albeit, Flamsteed did good work as Astronomical Observator. Professor Grant thus sums up his work: ' Flamsteed is universally admitted to have been one of the most eminent practical astronomers of the age in which he lived. His merits do not, indeed, appear at first sight so conspicuous as those of some of his illustrious contemporaries with whom he may be compared, although at the same time they are no less substantial. In carrying out views of practical utility, with a scrupulous attention to accuracy in the most minute details, in fortitude of resolution under adverse circumstances, and persevering adherence to continuity and regularity of observation throughout a long career, he has few..., libri, Kartoniert / Broschiert<

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