 | George Green - History - 1871 - 372 pages
...most interesting of the physical sciences, the author will deem himself amply repaid for any labour he may have bestowed upon it ; and it is hoped the...few opportunities of mental improvement, afforded. \ INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. THE object of this Essay is to submit to Mathematical Analysis the phenomena... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 526 pages
...appeared to Green at this time and to realize his refined sensitiveness in promulgating his discoveries. 'It must certainly be regarded as a pleasing prospect...of modesty which springs from a knowledge of things ? Just as the theories of astronomy and geodesy originated in the needs of the surveyor and navigator,... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 784 pages
...young man who has been obliged to obtain the little knowledge he possesses, at such intervals ttad by such means as other indispensable avocations which...of modesty which springs from a knowledge of things ? Just as the theories of astronomy and geodesy originated in the needs of the surveyor and navigator,... | |
 | Robert Mellors - Biography - 1924 - 368 pages
...have no information. He says that he had " been obliged to obtain the little knowledge he possessed, at such intervals, and by such means, as other indispensable...few opportunities of mental improvement afforded." Does this mean that he worked in the mill ? Fortunately, the mill will be preserved as a monument of... | |
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... he may have bestowed upon it ; and it is hoped the difficulty of the subject will incline mathematicians to read this work with indulgence, more particularly when they are informed that it was written by a young man who has been obliged to obtain... 