| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - Страниц: 650
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration (qv) of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to imhitter the... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - Страниц: 650
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 1G37, he discovered the libration (qv) of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1831 - Страниц: 646
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 1C37, he discovered the libration (qv)of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - Страниц: 630
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes : and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration (qv) of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to imbitter the... | |
| Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - Страниц: 348
...several years, employing his time in the study of mechanics and other branches of natural philosophy. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his...when in 1637 he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining years ;... | |
| 1844 - Страниц: 636
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...useless, when, in 1637, he discovered the libration (qvjof the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to imbitter the... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 370
...several years, employing his time in the study of mechanics and other branches of natural philosophy. He was at this time afflicted with a disease in his...in 1637, he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining years ;... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - Страниц: 886
...time, he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; r.ml though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes, lie was, at this time, afflicted with a disease in his eyes, one of which was wholly blind, and the... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - Страниц: 1016
...time he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was...in 1637, he discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of sleep, and pain in his limbs, united to embitter his declining years ;... | |
| William O. Blake - 1856 - Страниц: 1122
...calculation of longitudes; and chough he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he was the firs who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing...wholly blind, and the other almost useless, when, in 163") k* discovered the libration of the moon. Blindness, deafness, want of deep, and pain in his limbs,... | |
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