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" Mr Wood ! — This is the greatest discovery in nature that ever was since the world's creation. It never was so much as hinted by any man before. I know you will do him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writ plainer, and afforded a little... "
The Monist - Page 347
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 78

1843 - 586 pages
...Royal Society 1671, page 27, line 31. (Here follows a long quotation from the paper.) ' Mr Wood I — This is the greatest discovery in nature that- ever...had writ plainer, and afforded a little more paper. — Yours, ' J. AUBREY. ' Before I leave this town I will get of him a catalogue of what he hath wrote,...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...

John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pages
...Hooke, when it served to help to answer Dr. Wallis his arguments produced in the It. S. against it Mr. Wood ! This is the greatest discovery in nature...much as hinted by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...

John Walker - 1813 - 326 pages
...was since the world's creation. It never was so much as hinted by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper. Tuns, J. AUBREY. Before I leave this towne, I will...
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The Privileges of the University of Cambridge: Together with ..., Volume 2

George Dyer - 1824 - 736 pages
...reflections, or regard to his raw appeal: "Mr, Wood! this (alluding to what he had said of Hooke) " is the greatest discovery in nature, that ever was since the world's crea" tion; It never was so much as hinted by any man before f." f Which, again, is not true. The famous...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 44; Volume 78

1843 - 590 pages
...read to the Royal Society 1671, page 27, line 31. (Here follows a long quotation from the paper.) ' Mr Wood ! — This is the greatest discovery in nature...It never was so much as hinted by any man before. 1 know you will do him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writ plainer, and afforded...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...as hinted by any man ty fore. I know you will do him right 1 hope yo * The words are here illegible. may read his hand. I wish he had writ plainer, and afforded a little more paper. — Yours, ' J. AUBREY. 'Before I leave this town 1 will get of him a caialo¿rue of what he hath wrote,...
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"Brief Lives": Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey ..., Volume 1

John Aubrey, Andrew Clark - 1898 - 454 pages
...served to help to answer Dr. Wallis his arguments produced in the Royal Society against it.'] Mr. Wood l This is the greatest discovery in nature that ever...much as hinted by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more...
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A-H

John Aubrey - 1898 - 478 pages
...served to help to answer Dr. Wallis his arguments produced in the Royal Society against it.'] Mr. Wood I This is the greatest discovery in nature that ever...much as hinted by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more...
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'Brief Lives': Chiefly of Contemporaries

John Aubrey, Andrew Clark - 1898 - 456 pages
...by any man before. I know you will doe him right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper. Tuus, J. AUBREY. Before I leave this towne, I will gett of him a catalogue of what he hath wrote ; and as much of his inventions as I can....
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Brief Lives

John Aubrey - 1982 - 340 pages
.... * The letter was corrected by Robert Hooke, and some of his technical details have been omitted. Mr Wood! This is the greatest discovery in nature...right. I hope you may read his hand. I wish he had written plainer and afforded a little more paper. Yours, J. Aubrey Before I leave this town, I will...
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