Rev. Mr. Whewell’s Reply to the Quarterly Review. 211 
then (writing H! ¢’-> =H) we shall have 
Sagey 1, a1) a2. ] 
{=H [ 1 (m=1) tp ae. 
This may obviously coincide with approximate development 
1 Black ae 
especially if we confine ourselves to the first two terms, 
2, 
(which is usually sufficient,) making (m—1) = er 
XLI. Remarks on a Note on a Pamphlet entitled ** Newton 
and Flamsteed” in No. CX. of the Quarterly Review. By 
the Rev. W. Wuewewt, M.A. F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor 
of Trinity College, Cambridge.* 
To the Editor of the Quarterly Review. 
My dear Sir, Trinity College, Cambridge, Feb. 3, 1836. 
HAVE just seen No. 110 of the Review; and I perceive 
that the reviewer of Mr. Baily’s account of Flamsteed, 
in No. 109, has done my remarks on his article the honour of 
writing a note respecting them, which you have inserted. 
As I do not see in this note any new arguments on the re- 
viewer's side of our controversy, I do not conceive that I have 
occasion to add much to what I have already said, for I pre- 
sume your readers do not look for an answer to mere hard 
words, A few additional remarks will, I think, enable com- 
petent judges to decide between us. 
I asserted, and assert, that Flamsteed never fully compre- 
hended or accepted Newton’s theory ;—never understood the 
difference between the Newtonian theory of the causes of the 
celestial motions, and the empirical laws of phanomena which 
he himself called theories;—in short, the difference between a 
formula and an explanation—between the discovery of what 
occurred, and the discovery why it occurred—between an ob- 
server and a philosopher. I quoted a letter which proved this; 
nor does the reviewer venture to deny the clear inference 
which irresistibly follows from this quotation. But he takes 
refuge in “ the whole tenour of the correspondence,” without 
quoting a single passage. ‘To any one capable of understand- 
ing the distinction which I have pointed out, the whole tenour 
of the correspondence shows Flamsteed to have had no glimpse 
of this difference. For example, he says (Account of Flam- 
* From the 2nd edition of Mr. Whewell’s Pamphlet. See our last Num- 
ber, p. 139—147. 
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