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" Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake... "
A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents - Page 309
by Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 527 pages
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...volume, cuts, &c. June 2. Ordered, that Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Edmund Halley shall undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge; which he engaged to do. (See the Journal of Council.) January 26. Ordered, that Mr. Newton be consulted, whether he designs...
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Historical Essay on the First Publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia

Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - 208 pages
...meeting. They ordered indeed, that " Mr. Newton's book be printed," but they added, " that E. Halley shall undertake the " business of looking after it, and...printing it at his " own charge, which he engaged to do." There is some mystery in this part of the business. Halley, in the letter, which, according to the...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 19

1841 - 524 pages
...to the extent of resolving • that Mr. Newton's book be printed,' but adding that ' E. Halley shall undertake the business of looking after it, and printing...it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.' The fact was, that when the Council came to consider the Society's vote of the 19th of May, they found...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 19-20

1841 - 1040 pages
...to the extent of resolving ' that Mr. Newton's book be printed,' but adding that ' £. Halley shall undertake the business of looking after it, and printing...it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.' The fact was, that when the Council came to consider the Society's vote of the 19th of May, they found...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...resolved, ' That Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that E. Hal* Wïlloughby, De Historia Piscium. ley shall undertake the business of looking after it, and printing...it at his own charge ; which he engaged to do.' The wording of this minute has been thought ambiguous ; but the true sense seems tobe thel itérai fact,...
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...imaginable is to be expected from a person who has of all men the least need to borrow reputation I3. "I am, &c., " E. HALLEY." The Council met on the 2nd...19th May, is only to be explained by the fact, that the Council, — who were much better informed of the state of the Society's finances than the Society...
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London Exhibited in 1852: Elucidating Its Natural and Physical ...

John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...to print the book, and the disinterested Halley took it upon himself. Thus the council subsequently ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that...after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he has engaged to do." The Principia was published about the middle of 1687, with some Latin hexameters...
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History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the ...

Robert Grant - 1852 - 688 pages
...Council on the 2nd of June, to the effect that Mr. Newton's book be printed, and " that £. Halley shall undertake the business of looking after it and printing...it at his own charge, which he engaged to do." The fact is, that when the Council, -which took cognizance of all the pecuniary affaire of this Society,...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 9-10

1853 - 1036 pages
...to the extent of resolving ' that Mr. Newton's book be printed,' but i adding that ' E. Halley shall undertake the business of looking after it, and printing...it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.' The fact was, that when the Council came to consider the Society's vote of the 19th of May, they found...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 31

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...the 19th of May, was withdrawn by the Council ai their meeting on the 2d June, when it was resolved egar. To Portia, Mrs. Jameson assigns the first rank among the four, as more eminently embodying all inability of the Society to take this expense upon themselves, arose from their having expended £400...
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