 Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — a sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances...  Mechanics' Magazine - Page 4041857Full view - About this book
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 pages
...who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science, as can entitle him... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to be engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science, as tan entitle him... | |
 | Benjamin Apthorp Gould - 1849 - 44 pages
...those, who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the password. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without... | |
 | 1849 - 510 pages
...those, who may wish to enter, a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the password. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...those who may wish to enter a ground-plan of its accesses, and put them in possession of the pass-word. Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means,—sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...Philosophy, and it ought to be engraven on the mind of every aspirant after scientific knowledge. " Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...Mathematics , the great instrument of all exact inquiry, withoiit which no man COM ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...following authoritative exclusion of any vain imaginations which the amateur may dare to suggest. ' Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathe matics, the great iuttrumenl of all exact inquiry, without... | |
 | 1850 - 626 pages
...intelligible notion of the science, with but little power of solving the mathematical problems introduced. ' Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges...feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means,—sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematies, the great instrument nf all exact inquiry,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1850 - 400 pages
...justly remarks, that, " Admission to its sanctuary [the science of Mathematical science. Astronomy], and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means — sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, Aslronomythe great instrument of all exact inquiry,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1850 - 438 pages
...the privileges and feelings of a votary, is only to be gained by one means, a sound ami svjficicnt knowledge of Mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man ean ever make such advances in this or any othfrof the higher departments of science, as can entitle... | |
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