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Johann Heinrich Lambert cytaty

„Żyjemy z naszymi wadami tak samo jak z zapachami ciała: nie przeszkadzają nam one, lecz tym, którzy są z nami.”

Johann Heinrich Lambert: Cytaty po angielsku

“We would wish to discover the Plan of the Universe, and the means employed by the Eternal Architect in the execution of his magnificent design. We will first contemplate the System of which we make a part, and of which our Sun is the center. Thence we will ascend towards those Suns and those innumerable Worlds which are scattered through the immensity of space.”

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Introduction, p. xxxix
The System of the World (1800)

“We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.”

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The System of the World (1800)

“If in two ellipses having a common major axis we take two such arcs that their chords are equal, and that also the sums of the radii vectores, drawn respectively from the foci to the extremities of these arcs, are equal to each other, then the sectors formed in each ellipse by the arc and the two radii vectores are to each other as the square roots of the parameters of the ellipses.”

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Sect. 4, Lemma 26, Insigniores orbitae cometarum proprietates (1761) [Notable properties of comets' orbits] translated by Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=kqQPAAAAYAAJ (1906) p. 259, from the German of Michel Chasles, Geschichte der Geometrie, haupsächlich mit Bezug auf die neuern Methoden https://books.google.com/books?id=NgYHAAAAcAAJ (1839) p. 183.

“We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.”

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The System of the World (1800)

“But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?”

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Introduction, p. xxxix
The System of the World (1800)

“This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.”

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The System of the World (1800)