 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1911 - 1324 pages
...with the hope of adding a little to the foundations of human knowledge by means of careful experiment. At the outset let me remind you of an old saying of...definiteness of the data on which they are based. * Plato, Pkilelfus (trans. Jowett), 1876, Vol. IV., p. 104. Lord Kelvin said : " Accurate and minute... | |
 | Plato - 1871 - 654 pages
...other, in each of them. Pro. What are they, and how do you separate them ? Soc. I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...from any art, that which remains will not be much. Pro. Not much, certainly. senses, which is given by experience and exercise, in addition to a certain... | |
 | Plato - 1878 - 618 pages
...other, in each of them. Pro. What are they, and how do yon separate them ? Soc. I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...from any art, that which remains will not be much, Pro. Not mucb, certainly. Soc. The rest will be only conjecture, and the better use of the senses,... | |
 | Plato - 1892 - 670 pages
...they, and how do you separate them? Soc. I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and The pure weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will not be much. nvc . n -VT . i - , arithmetic, Pro. Not much, certainly. mensuration, Soc. The rest will be only conjecture,... | |
 | Irving Elgar Miller - 1904 - 104 pages
...said to be dependent upon mathematics ; " all arts and sciences necessarily partake of them." 23 " If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will only be conjecture and the better use of the senses which is given by experience and practice, in addition... | |
 | Newton Henry Black, Harvey Nathaniel Davis - 1913 - 530 pages
...Physics begins with measurements. At the very outset we may well recall an old saying of Plato's : " If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...any art, that which remains will not be much." In the laboratory the student will learn to measure many different kinds of things, not mainly for the... | |
 | Newton Henry Black - 1913 - 540 pages
...Physics begins with measurements. At the very outset we may well recall an old saying of Plato's : " If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...any art, that which remains will not be much." In the laboratory the student will learn to measure many different kinds of things, not mainly for the... | |
 | 1913 - 722 pages
...the inevitable haematoma would form itself i). STEPHEN HALES AND THE MENSURATION OF BLOODPRESSURE. If arithmetic, mensuration and weighing be taken away...from any art, that which remains will not be much. (PLATO. Philebus, transi, by Jowett.) It is astonishing that so long a time passed before it occurred... | |
 | Fletcher Durell - 1914 - 388 pages
...necessary to a high degree of efficiency in the treatment of any domain of material. Thus Plato says, "If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...any art, that which remains will not be much." In like manner Lord Kelvin says, "I often remark that when you can measure what you are speaking about... | |
 | Newton Henry Black, Harvey Nathaniel Davis - 1915 - 534 pages
...Physics begins with measurements. At the very outset we may well recall an old saying of Plato's : " If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken...any art, that which remains will not be much." In the laboratory the student will learn to measure many different kinds of things, not mainly for the... | |
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I mean to say, that if arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken away from any art, that which remains will not be much. 
