Excerpt from A Discourse Read June 25, 1888 to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dedication of the Hopkins Observatory of Williams College Newton himself had a small observatory at Cambridge (in England), where he was a professor; but it was not to be expected that he himself should watch the heavens nightly. His mighty genius was too fully occupied with his great mathematical problems; among which is to be reckoned the invention, independently of Leibnitz, of the calculus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.