 | 1831 - 336 pàgines
...of the end, and, while gazing too intently at the goal which alone it has been accustomed to desire, to lose sight of the richness and variety of the prospects...most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious subject unconnected, it is true, with our own, but bearing strongly on the point before us. " But,... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pàgines
...never forget that it is principles, not phenomena,—laws, not insulated, independent facts,—which are the objects of inquiry to the natural philosopher....most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious subject unconnected, it is true, with our own, but bearing strongly on the point before us. " But,... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1833 - 502 pàgines
...rather as a task than a pastime. Nor was the line which Mr. Twaddleton had quoted from the * The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence...compendious neatness in the whole science of Optics. — Herschel's Preliminary Discourses. t " I yield, my son, and no longer refuse to become your companion."... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1847 - 708 pàgines
...country people exceedingly, who took his candles for comets. — Thomson's Hist, of RS *The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence...simplicity and compendious neatness in the whole science uf Optics. — HemcheVs Preliminary Dis courses. expedition ; but, if the comparisons were to run parallel,... | |
 | 1850 - 778 pàgines
...soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important, from the variety of the phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from...noble instrument in the eye of correct judgment ; and to blow a large, regular, and durable soap-bubble may -become the serious and praiseworthy endeavor... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pàgines
...by the most familiar and simple fact, as by the most imposing and uncommon phenomenon. The colours which glitter on a soapbubble are the immediate consequence...principle the most important, from the variety of the phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious neatness, in... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1857 - 632 pàgines
...its execution. 'Cede equidem, nee, nate, tibi comes ire recuso,' J as Virgil has it." * The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence...explains, and the most beautiful from its simplicity and compendiouft neatness in the whole science of Optics. — Herschefs Preliminary Discourse. In a future... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1861 - 474 pàgines
...Ben Jonson as a boy was seen flying his kite by the windmill in Saint Giles's Fields. t The colours which glitter on a soapbubble are the immediate consequence...compendious neatness, in the whole science of Optics. — Hergchel'g Preliminary Discourse. In a future part of this work it will be seen that the soap-bubble... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pàgines
...simple fact as by the most imposing and uncommon phenomenon. The colours which flitter on a soap bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most...compendious neatness, in the whole science of optics. ... To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of... | |
 | 1899 - 338 pàgines
...and uncommon phenomenon. The colours which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequences of a principle the most important from the variety...explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compenduous neatness, in the whole science of optics.' 1 Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.... | |
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The colors which glitter on a soap-bubble are the immediate consequence of a principle the most important from the variety of phenomena it explains, and the most beautiful, from its simplicity and compendious neatness, in the whole science of optics. 
