 | 1801 - 622 Seiten
...while he was employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, at the early age qf ^hirty-sevcq. His brother, Mr. David Gregory, of Kinnairdy, who spent the greater part... | |
 | James Hardie - 1801 - 526 Seiten
...October, 1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter,, through a to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, at the early age of thirty-seven. GREGORY, (DAVID) Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, nephew of the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 700 Seiten
...1673, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great loss of the mathematical world, at only 37 years of age. As to his cliaracter, Mr. James... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 Seiten
...1675, teing employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great joss of the mathematical world, at only 37 years of age. As to his character, Mr. James... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 Seiten
...1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great loss of the mathematical world, at only thirty-seven years of age. The most shining part... | |
 | 1814 - 510 Seiten
...1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, ha was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great loss of the mathematical world, at only thirty-seven years of age. . The most shining... | |
 | William Kennedy - 1818 - 524 Seiten
...Nicholas church, over the magistrates' gallery, where they have remained for many years. Mr. •s, Mr. Jameson died in Edinburgh, in the year 1644, possessed...year 1618 he removed an immense stone, called Knock Maitland, which lay in the middle of the entry to the barbour of Aberdeen, and was a dangerous obstruction... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 394 Seiten
...1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great loss of the mathematical world, at only 37 years of age. As to his character, Mr. James... | |
 | 1823 - 872 Seiten
...1675, being employed in showing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of hie pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, at t!ie early age of 37. He WKS a man of an acute and penetrating genius. His temper seems to have been... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 Seiten
...for in October, 1675, while engaged in pointing out to some of his pupils the satellites of Jupiter, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. As a discoverer of mathematical truths, Gregory has had few... | |
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In 1674 Mr. Gregory was called to Edinburgh, to fill the chair of mathematics in that university. This place he had held but little more than a year, when, in October 1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some... 
