 | Alexander Young - Mathematicians - 1838 - 128 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Alexander Young - Mathematicians - 1838 - 128 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - Astronomers - 1839 - 192 pages
...contrived to find his way, in the face of a north-east monsoon, by mere dead-reckoning, replied, " that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 242 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines - Philippines - 1921 - 735 pages
...how he contrived to find his way in the face of the northeast monsoon by dead reckoning. 8 He replied that "he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation, as well for all practical purposes as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 872 pages
...contrived to find his way, in the face of a north-east monsoon, by mere dead reckoning, replied, " that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
 | Dudley Observatory - Astronomy - 1866 - 392 pages
...contrived to find his way, In the face of a north-east monsoon, by mere dead reckoning, replied, " that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir ISAAC NEWTON himself,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 552 pages
...that time, that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself,... | |
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Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive. 
