... on the surface of the earth, with the same instruments, and by the same methods which he had employed from Berlin to the mouth of the Obi, and thence to the Sea of Okhotsh. M. de Humboldt remarks that our epoch, marked by great discoveries in optics,... The Mathematical Miscellany - Page 1361836Full view - About this book
| 1837 - 436 pages
...that our epoch, marked by great discoveries in optics, electricity, and magnetism, is characterized by the possibility of connecting phenomena by the generalization of empirical laws, and by the mutual assistance rendered by sciences which had long remained isolated. Now, he observes, simple... | |
| Madras literary society - 1837 - 996 pages
...that our epoch, marked by great discoveries in optics, electricity, and magnetism, is characterized by the possibility of connecting phenomena by the generalization of empirical laws, and by the mutual assistance rendered by sciences which had long remained isolated. Now, he observes, simple... | |
| 1837 - 468 pages
...that our epoch, marked by great discoveries in optics, electricity, and magnetism, is characterized by the possibility of connecting phenomena by the generalization of empirical laws, and by the mutual assistance rendered by sciences which had long remained isolated. Now, he observes, simple... | |
| Humphrey Lloyd - 1842 - 74 pages
...interest attached to these phenomena that the establishment of most of the observatories for magnetical research has taken its rise. Those who took part in...at profound depths in the interior of our planet, and in the superior regions of the atmosphere." But important as these phenomena undoubtedly are, they... | |
| 1836 - 610 pages
...Berlin to the mouth of the Oby, and thence to the Sea of Okhotsk. That which characterizes our epoch, at a time distinguished by grand discoveries in optics,...electricity, and magnetism, is the possibility of connecting phsenomena by the generalization of empirical Jaws, and the mutual aid afforded by sciences which had... | |
| 1837 - 610 pages
...that our epoch, marked by great discoveries in optics, electricity, and magnetism, is characterized by the possibility of connecting phenomena by the generalization of empirical laws, and liy the mutual assistance rendered by sciences which had long remained isolated. Now, he observes,... | |
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