 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1833 - 646 pàgines
...BABBAGB explained his views of the advantage which would be derived from a collection in Tables of all those Facts which can be expressed by Numbers in the various Sciences and Arts, and mhic.lt he has denominated " the Constants of Nature and Art." A very valuable collection of this... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1834 - 562 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. " I would propose that its title should be The Constants...of: 1 . All the constant quantities belonging to our system ; — as, distance of each planet,— period of revolution, — inclination of orbit, &c., —... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1836 - 516 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. " I would propose that its title should be The Constants...numbers in the various sciences and arts." (Babbage, Edmburgh Journal of Science, NS, No. 12.) The following extracts from Mr. Babbage's general plan of... | |
 | Congrès international de statistique - 1853 - 862 pàgines
...present lime, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. I would propose that its title should be « The Constants...expressed by numbers in the various sciences and arts. A better idea will be formed by giving an outline of its proposed contents , and it may perhaps be... | |
 | 1854 - 670 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. I would propose that its title should be, " The Constants of Nature and Art" It ought to contain all those facts which can NATURE AND ART. be expressed by numbers in the various... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1854 - 664 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. I would propose that its title should be, "The Constants of Nature and Art." It ought to contain all those facts which can be expressed by numbers in the various sciences... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1857 - 482 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. I would propose that its title should be " The Constants...expressed by numbers in the various sciences and arts. A better idea will be formed by giving an outline of its proposed contents, and it may, perhaps, be... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1874 - 462 pàgines
...series of tables to be entitled the " Constants of Nature and Art." These tables were to contain all the facts which can be expressed by numbers, in the various sciences and arts, such as the atomic weight of bodies, specific gravity, elasticity, specific heat, .conducting power,... | |
 | Anthony Hyman - 1985 - 348 pàgines
...scries of tables to be entitled the 'Constants of Nature and Art'. These tables were to contain all the facts which can be expressed by numbers, in the various sciences and arts, such as the atomic weight of bodies, specific gravity, elasticity, specific heat, conducting power,... | |
 | Ian Hacking - 1990 - 282 pàgines
...present time, and which would be of the greatest advantage to all classes of the scientific world. I would propose that its title should be 'The Constants...be expressed by numbers in the various sciences and arts.*1 Numerical regularities about disease, unknown in 1820, were commonplace by 1840. They were... | |
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... science which are too large and too laborious for individual efforts, and are therefore fit objects to be undertaken by united academies, I wish to point out one which seems eminently necessary at the present time, and which would be of the greatest... 
