 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 1324 Seiten
...which they are based. * Plato, Pkilelfus (trans. Jowett), 1876, Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 Seiten
...Ye.irBooKol Science isanolijtct to wliiuh the pow<r ul action of tiie British Asaoculiuii would be thorougnly appropriate. In referring to recent advances in several...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a Ion; train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 Seiten
...Ye.irBookol Science isanobjfct to which the powrr ul action of the British Association would be thorougaly appropriate, In referring to recent advances in several...his mind, and so the discovery was made. It was by a lonr train of mathematical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical... | |
 | 1872 - 342 Seiten
...address to the British Association, says, " accurate and minute measurement seems to the more scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical Section, exhorts mathematicians to be up and... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 Seiten
...an object to which the powerful action of the British Association would bo thoroughly appropriate. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly ¡ill the grandest discoveries erf science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 Seiten
...choose some of those which have struck mo as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to tho non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science havo been but tho rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting... | |
 | 1872 - 318 Seiten
...in promoting accurate measurement in various subjects. To the non-scientific imagination this seems a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something...But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement... | |
 | 1874 - 352 Seiten
...it is necessary that mirnerical results should be sought for and obtained. •' Nearly all the grand discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results," is a principle enunciated in the... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 Seiten
...feature constituting an exact science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association, 1871.) In Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, at the present day,... | |
 | South Kensington museum (Londres / 1852-1899). - 1876 - 450 Seiten
...inaugural address, delivered in 1871 to the members of the British Association, in which he says, " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed upon his mind, and so the discovery was made.... | |
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Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued... 
