Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the... The Quarterly Review - Page 66publié par - 1813Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1812 - 352 pages
...progress was made in chemical in-, vestigation by means of electrical combinations. Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application...of the different success of their labours, as the peculiav nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent of vessels of... | |
| Friedrich Christian Accum - 1824 - 386 pages
...and changes of mutual relations, very important discoveries have been made. " Nothing tends so -much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The active intellectual powers of men in different times, are not so much the causes of the different success... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...progress was made in chemical investigation by means of electrical combinations. " Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application...glass, there could have been no accurate manipulations in common chemistry : the air-pump was necessary for the investigation of the properties of gaseous... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...progress was made in chemical investigation by means of electrical combinations. " Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application...glass, there could have been no accurate manipulations in common chemistry : the air-pump was necessary for the investigation of the properties of gaseous... | |
| Anonymous - 1813 - 552 pages
...researches were conducted : ' Nothing tends so much,' he observes, ' to the advancement of knowledge as ihe application of a new instrument. The native intellectual...of the different success of their labours, as the psculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent of vessels of... | |
| James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...He always spoke of the Pile ofVolta as the first source of his own success. " Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument," he says ; and then adds, " The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much... | |
| 1857 - 456 pages
...to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument," he says ; and then adds, " The native intellectual powers of men in different...much the causes of the different success of their labors, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession ; " a proposition... | |
| 1857 - 476 pages
...powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labors, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession ; " a proposition which he applies to his own discoveries. But we may truly say with one of his biographers,... | |
| 1857 - 426 pages
...He always spoke of the Pile of Volta as the first source of his own success. " Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument," he says; and then adds, " The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1877 - 844 pages
...new instrument often forms an epoch in the history of science. As Davy said, " Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application...means and artificial resources in their possession." In the absence indeed of advanced theory and analytical power, a very precise instrument would be useless.... | |
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