 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 pàgines
...of a simple bust; but assuredly they would refuse even a modest medal to our Papins and Vaucansons, our Watts and Arkwrights, and to other mechanists,...augmenting from age to age with the progress of knowledge. Since such heresies as these are openly avowed, we must not disdain to combat them. It is not without... | |
 | 1839 - 474 pàgines
...worthyof a simple bust; but assuredly they would refuse even a modest medal to our Papins and Vaucansons, our Watts and Arkwrights, and to other mechanists,...but whose renown will go on augmenting from age to ago with the progress of knowledge. Since such heresies as these are openly avowed, we must not disdain... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pàgines
...of a simple bust ; but assuredly they would refuse even a modest medal to our Papins and Vaucansons, our Watts and Arkwrights, and to other mechanists, unknown, perhaps, in a certain circle, hut whose renown will go on augmenting from age to age with the progress of knowledge." In p. 103,... | |
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This, gentlemen, is a very abridged sketch of the benefits bequeathed to the world, by the machine of which PAPIN supplied the germ in his writings, and which, after so many ingenious exertions, WATT carried to such admirable perfection. 