 The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things: the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent...  The Scientific Monthly - Page 546edited by - 1922Full view - About this book
 | William Matthews - 1827 - 644 pages
...Chemistry. M. Lavoisier observes, that " every branch of physical science must consist of three things—the series of facts? which are the objects of the science; the ideas which are represented by these facts; and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions... | |
 | Thomas Duché Mitchell - 1832 - 582 pages
...contradiction, to say that cold is a stimulus. CHAPTER III. Of Nomenclature. LAVOISIER hasobserved, ' that every branch of physical science must consist of three...and the words, by which these ideas are expressed.' Hence, that acute philosopher labored to produce a perfect system of names; aware, not only, that the... | |
 | 1866 - 1106 pages
...impossibility of separating the nomenclature of the science from the science itself," inasmuch as " every branch of physical science must consist of three...are the objects of the science — the ideas which represent the facts — and the words by which these ideas are expressed.' " Like three impressions... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three...which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of... | |
 | Association of American Geographers - 1915 - 176 pages
...the preface to Kerr's translation of Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry (4th ed.; Edinburgh, 1799): Every branch of physical science must consist of three...which are the objects of the science; the ideas which represent these facts; and the words by which these ideas arc expressed The word ought to produce the... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1912 - 896 pages
...form the subject-matter ; (2) the ideas represented by those <acts ; and (3) the words in which those ideas are expressed. " Like three impressions of the...the word ought to produce the idea ; and the idea ought to be a picture of the fact." Special technical words are employed to fix and describe the ideas... | |
 | Joseph J. Schwab - 1978 - 404 pages
...impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three...which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. A. LAVOISIER, Elements of... | |
 | Londa Schiebinger - 1991 - 372 pages
...metaphysics, poetry, and rhetorical ornament.83 In Lavoisier's words, the language of a science should consist of three things: "the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed."84 Literature, which Claude... | |
 | Edmund Blair Bolles - 1999 - 518 pages
...impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three...which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of... | |
 | Londa Schiebinger - 2001 - 266 pages
...and rhetorical embellishment. In Lavoisier's words, the language of science should restrict itself to "the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed." By the middle of the nineteenth... | |
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