 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...  Elements of Chemical Philosophy - Page 26by Sir Humphry Davy - 1812 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 pages
...circumstances under which his researches were conducted : ' ' Nothing tends so much,' he oliserves, ' to the advancement of knowledge as the application...of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent of vessels of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...circumstances under which his researches were conducted : ' Nothing tends so much,' he observes, ' to the advancement of knowledge as the application...not so much the causes of the different success of iheir labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent... | |
 | Friedrich Christian Accum - 1824 - 386 pages
...alterations of temperature, 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
...in 1800, of a new electrical apparatus, that any great progress was made in chemical investigation by means of electrical combinations. " Nothing tends...of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent of vessels of... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...in 1800, of a new electrical apparatus, that any great progress was made in chemical investigation by means of electrical combinations. " Nothing tends...of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession. Independent of vessels of... | |
 | 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
...gracefully and well. 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 - 426 pages
...gracefully and well. 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 - 1874 - 978 pages
...the introduction of a new instrument often forms an epoch in the history of science. As Davy said, ' Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge...of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possessionb'. In the absence indeed... | |
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