Translation of a Greek Ode on Astronomy.
O’er Nature’s laws God cast the veil of night,
Out-blaz’d a Newton’s soul—and all was light.
—Hill, Aaron.
On Sir Isaac Newton.
[1010]. Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.—Leibnitz.
Quoted by F. R. Moulton: Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199.
[1011]. Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.—Lagrange.
Quoted by F. R. Moulton: Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199.