 | 1804 - 536 pages
...would allow of judging, nearly or quite the as that of those from Regbania , and the least atom of of them immediately evinces its nature, on being heated,...proportion to what we are ignorant] of, our knowledge in everjr department of it is so incomplete, so broken, consisting so entirely of isolated points thinly... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 294 pages
...by the strong electricity it acquires. On their solution in acids, they leave quartz. OBSEEVATIONS. Chemistry is yet so new a science, what we know of...entirely of isolated points thinly scattered like lurid specks on a vast field of darkness, that no researches can be undertaken without producing some... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 282 pages
...Somersetshire; 3, from Derbyshire; and 4, electrical calamine. In this essay the author remarks that " Chemistry is yet so new a science; what we know of...knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting so entirely of isolated points, thinly scattered, like lurid specks on a vast field of darkness,... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 292 pages
...Derbyshire ; and 4, electrical calamine. In this essay the author remarks that " Chemistry is yet BO new a science ; what we know of it bears so small...knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting so entirely of isolated points, thinly scattered, like lurid specks on a vast field of darkness,... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 290 pages
...Copper. @-\^/- Soda. tj Q-vA/- Potawa. The following extracts illustrate his manner of thinking : " Chemistry is yet so new a science, what we know of it bears so email a proportion to what we are Ignorant of, our knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete,... | |
 | 1881 - 856 pages
...quantities and accurate determinations in conducting his inquiries." Smithson says in one of his papers, " chemistry is yet so new a science," what we know of...knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting so entirely of isolated points, thinly scattered, like lurid specks on a vast field of darkness,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 850 pages
...illustrate his manner of thinking: " Chemistry is yet so new a science, what we know of it bears so tmall a proportion to what we are ignorant of, our knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, BO broken, consisting so entirely of isolated points thinly scattered like lucid specks on a vast field... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 834 pages
...~~/\ ' Fluor-Calcium. Carbonate of Liine. The following extracts illustrate his manner of thinking: " Chemistry is yet so new a science, what we know of it bears BO small a proportion to what we are ignorant of, our knowledge in every department of it is BO incomplete,... | |
 | 1892 - 780 pages
...chosen chemistry was an empiric* science, and in its infancy. As he himself said in one of his papers : "Chemistry is yet so new a science ; what we know...knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting so entirely of isolated points, thinly scattered, like Inrid specks on a vast field of darkness,... | |
 | Samuel Pierpont Langley - 1914 - 78 pages
...Calamines,1 by James Smithson, Esquire," read November 18, 1802. In this paper the author remarks that " Chemistry is yet so new a science ; what we know of it bears so small a proportion of what we are ignorant of; our knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting entirely... | |
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Smithson says in one of his papers, " chemistry is yet so new a science," what we know of it bears so small a proportion to what we are ignorant of; our knowledge in every department of it is so incomplete, consisting so entirely of isolated points, thinly... 
