 Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific 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...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Стр. lxixавторы: British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - Страниц: 1324
...work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued...in the minute sifting of numerical results." * The more subtle and complicated the conclusions to be drawn, the more exactly quantitative must be the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...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...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 - Страниц: 662
...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...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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 716
...looking for something new. But nearly ¡ill the grandest discoveries erf science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued...through prodigious toil of practical astronomers, that Xewton first demonstrated the forces urging the planets towards the Sun, determined the magnitudes... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 318
...grandest discoveries of science, including Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The origin of exact science in terrestrial magnetism is traceable to Gauss's invention of methods of finding... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 342
...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...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address to the Physical Section, exhorts mathematicians to be up and... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - Страниц: 710
...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...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 - 1876 - Страниц: 450
...than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient longcontinued...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.... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1876 - Страниц: 458
...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. It was by a long train of mathemetical calculation, founded on results accumulated through prodigious toil of practical astronomers... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 612
...discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labor in the minute sifting 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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