 | Brooke Hindle - 1956 - 458 Seiten
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 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 Seiten
...philosophy with more, or more ingenious, solutions of the phenomena of nature. We have supposed Mr. [David] Rittenhouse second to no astronomer living; that in...ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but [with his model of the planetary system] he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man... | |
 | Wolfgang Paul - 1970 - 952 Seiten
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 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 Seiten
...it off as his own without credit. The astronomer David Rittenhouse, of whom Jefferson had written, "as an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has produced," had improved the Franklin stove by simplifying it. In the 1790s, it replaced the Franklin... | |
 | Graham Clarke - 1993 - 600 Seiten
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As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day. 
