 Others find its justification, its "raison d'etre," in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a recent magazine article, expresses his doubts whether it...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 5781869Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 684 pages
...d'etre," in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the hand: maiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a...than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.* What is it to us, they say, if the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or if... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 836 pages
...d'être," in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science ; and a very clever writer in...than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles. What is it to as, they say, if the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or if... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 694 pages
...d'être," in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a...itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worthy of in tercsting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.* What... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester - 1870 - 162 pages
...d'etre,' in its being either the torchbearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a...in itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worthy ol interesting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.* What... | |
 | 1870 - 196 pages
...d'etre,' in its being either the torchbearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science ; and a very clever writer in...in itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worthy ot interesting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.* What... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester - 1870 - 166 pages
...d'etre,' in its being either the torchbearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a...in itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worthy ot interesting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.* What... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 844 pages
...d'etre," in its being either the torch-bearer lending the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science ; and a very clever writer in...it is, in itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worth v of interesting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 848 pages
...d'itre, in its being either the torch-bearer leadiug the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science; and a very clever writer in a...it is, in itself, a more serious pursuit, or more worthly of interesting an intellectual human being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles.... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1903 - 832 pages
...d'llre, in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science ; and a very clever writer in...being, than the study of chess problems or Chinese jiuzzles. What is it to us, they «ay, if the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles,... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester - 1908 - 751 pages
...d'etre/' in its being either the torch-bearer leading the way, or the handmaiden holding up the train of Physical Science ; and a very clever writer in...than the study of chess problems or Chinese puzzles. What is it to us, they say, if the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or if... | |
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