 Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application. At the time of the discovery of the beautiful theorem of Huygens, it...  The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 601830Full view - About this book
 | Charles Babbage - 1830 - 252 pages
...marine animals and vegetables to accumulate on its surface, and thus impede the progress of the vessel. will probably at some future day supply, by its successful...mathematical science of his age, but a genius to enlarge its boundaries by new creations of his own. Such talents are not always united with a quick perception... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1830 - 308 pages
...animals and vegetables to accumulate on its surface, and thus impede the progress of the vessel. •ill probably at some future day supply, by its successful...mathematical science of his age, but a genius to enlarge its boundaries by new creations of his own. Such talents are not always united with a quick perception... | |
 | 1831 - 660 pages
...position we are endeavouring to establish. ' Other instances might, if necessary, be adduced, to shew that long intervals frequently elapse between the...mathematical science of his age, but a genius to enlarge its boundaries by new creations of his own. Such talents are not always united with a quick perception... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...position we are endeavouring to establish. "Other instances, might, if necessary, be adduced, lo shew that long intervals frequently elapse between the...which are necessary for their practical application. " If, therefore, it is important to the country that abstract principles should be applied to practical... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...application a mind of quite a distinct order and construction. Mr. Babbage has very justly observed, that those intellectual qualifications which give birth...which are necessary for their practical application. Davy furnished the exception that was necessary to make good the rule. He detects, in the first instance,... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...application a mind of quite a distinct order and construction. Mr. Babbage has very justly observed, that those intellectual qualifications which give birth...which are necessary for their practical application. Davy furnished the exception that was necessary to make good the rule. He detects, in the first instance,... | |
 | 1830 - 606 pages
...determining the length of the pendulum. " Those intellectual qualifications," Mr. Babbage observes, " which give birth to new principles or to new methods,...which are necessary for their practical application." Where the Government has depended upon scientific advisers, it seems to have been sadly misdirected.... | |
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