 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 pages
...in several branches of science, I simply choose some of those which have struck me as most notable. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest... | |
 | 1872 - 342 pages
...address to the British Association, says, " accurate and minute measurement seems to the more scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results." Professor Tait, in his opening address... | |
 | 1874 - 352 pages
...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...labour in the minute sifting of numerical results," is a principle enunciated in the address of the President of the Association for the Edinburgh Meeting,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1875 - 710 pages
...feature constituting an exact science. ' Accurate and minute measurement,' says Sir William Thomson, ' seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.' (Address to the British Association,... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1876 - 450 pages
...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...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient longcontinued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand... | |
 | 1876 - 612 pages
...of the Conference* In connection with the Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington. " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...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... | |
 | 1877 - 828 pages
..." eeems to the nonDUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. If" PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN FERGUS LARGS . 1 scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...the rewards of accurate measurement, and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...PHOTOCRAPHtD BY JOHN FERGUS. LARCS . 1877.] Our Portrait Gallery. 561 scientific imagination a lees lofty and dignified work than looking for something...the rewards of accurate measurement, and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...Thomson, in his inaugural address, delivered in 1871, to the members of the British Association, says, ' Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific...but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grand... | |
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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... 
