 | 1834 - 596 pages
...sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained hy one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact enquiry, tcithout which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1894 - 604 pages
...depending much on the authority of others. This can only be in the words of Sir John Herschel by a " sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the...without which no man can ever make such advances in any of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 376 pages
...sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a stmnd and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the great...higher departments of science, as can entitle him lo form an Independent opinion on any subject of discussion within their range." Treatise on Astronomy... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 pages
...its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the...without which no man can ever make such advances in tlns or any other of the higher departments of science, as can entitle him to form an independent opinion... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 pages
...its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics, the...any other of the higher departments of science, as tan entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject of discussion within their range." Treatise... | |
 | 1849 - 510 pages
...the password. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge...the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without winch no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science,... | |
 | 1850 - 556 pages
...vain imaginations which the amateur may dare to suggest. of mathematics, the great instrument of aV exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the hiyher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject of discussion... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathe matics, the great iuttrumenl of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in tlii3 or any other of the higher department3 of leience at can entitle him to form an independent opinion... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1850 - 438 pages
...the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound ami svjficicnt knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man ean ever make such advances in this or any othfrof the higher departments of science, as can entitle... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound and sufficient knowledge of Mathematics , the great instrument of all exact inquiry, withoiit which no man COM ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of... | |
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... sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any olher of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion... 
