A Budget of Paradoxes, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Augustus De Morgan

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ISBN 10 : 1331315093 ISBN 13 : 9781331315094

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Budget of Paradoxes



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Napoleon, greatly amused, told this reply to Lagrange, who exclaimed, A h! cest une belle hypothese; qa explique beaucoup de choses. It is commonly said that the last words of Laplace were, Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense. This looks like a parody on Newton spebbles: the following is the true account; it comes to me through one remove from Poisson. After the publication (in 1825) of the fifth volume of the Mecanique CS leste, Laplace became gradually weaker, and with it musing and abstracted. He thought much on the great problems of existence, and often muttered to himself, Qu est ce que cest que tout celaV After many alternations, he appeared at last so permanently prostrated that his family applied to his favorite pupil, M. Poisson, to try to get a word from him. Poisson paid a visit, and after a few words of salutation, said, Jai une bonne nouvelle i vous annoncer: on a requ au Bureau des Longitudes une lettre dAU emagne annonqant que M. Bessel a verifie par Tobservation vos decouvertes theoriques sur les satellites de Jupiter. Laplace opened his eyes and answered with deep I have no need for this hypothesis. A h, it is a beautiful hypothesis; it explains many things. What we know is very slight; what we dont know is immense. Brewster relates L ife of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. II, p. 407) that, a short time before his death, Newton remarked: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. See Vol. I, p. 292, note 1. What is all that! I have some good news to tell you: at the Bureau of Longitudes they have just received a letter from Germany announcing that M.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331315093
• ISBN 13: 9781331315094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 399
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