...cannot yet see, but which mathematical calculation tells them is there; for, as Lord Kelvin has said: "nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...labor in the minute sifting of numerical results." It is nearing one hundred and fifty years since the son of Jewish parents, William Herschell, who to...

...with precise mensural determinations, and he wrote : " Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long continued labour, in the minute sifting of numerical...

...therefore, interpolate the words of Lord Kelvin at this point: Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...labor in the minute sifting of numerical results. This is impressive testimony to the value of such well-known but not well-appreciated practices as...

...minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than the looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the reward of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical...

...which they are based. Lord Kelvin said: "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientiffc imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking...all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued labor in the minute sifting of numerical...

...dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been the rewards of accurate measurement and patient, long-continued...in the minute sifting of numerical results." * The more subtle and complicated the conclusions to be drawn, the more exactly quantitative must be the...

...minute measurement seemed a less dignified work than looking for something new. But, he emphasised, 'nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have...of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results': • Newton's theory of gravitation was not the...

...audience of the comments he had made 23 years earlier: Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...than looking for something new. But nearly all the greatest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient longcontinue...

...struck me as most notable. Accurate aud minute measurement. Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...of numerical results. The popular idea of Newton's grandest discovery is that the theory of gravitation flashed into his mind, and so the discovery was...

...presidential address of his to the British Association : "Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified...labor in the minute sifting of numerical results." ALEXANDER McAn1E. Lightning, and the Some ideas are advanced in an article in Conductivity of the Earth,...