Nature, Volume 87

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1911 - Electronic journals
 

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Page 342 - chemistry is essentially a quantitative science, and no chemical theory, no partial chemical theory even, can be successful unless its character is quantitative. To quote the words of Lord Kelvin : " I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express
Page 342 - in numbers, you know something about it ; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind;
Page 328 - at York, under the presidency of Earl Fitzwilliam. The object of the Association was then explicitly stated :—" To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, to promote the intercourse of the« who cultivate science in different parts of the British
Page 361 - Spear, to equal which the tallest pine hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast of some great ammirai were but a wand.
Page 192 - to discuss, in the light of science and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between so-called white and so-called coloured peoples, with
Page 330 - conclusions which I have ventured to make respecting the undecompounded nature of oxymuriatic gas are, I conceive, entirely confirmed by these new facts." " It has been judged most proper to suggest a name founded upon one of its obvious and characteristic properties, its colour. and to call it chlorine.
Page 117 - 2. Whether animals and man can be reciprocally infected with it. 3. Under what conditions, if at all, the transmission of the disease from animals to man takes place, and what are the circumstances favourable
Page 371 - For the first scientific exposition of Vitalism we must go back to Aristotle, and to his doctrine of the three parts of the tripartite Soul : according to which doctrine, in Milton's language, created things " by gradual change sublimed. To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ! " The first and lowest of these three, the
Page 337 - intelligence was to see the whole explanation. What are large collections of facts for? To make theories from, says Bacon ; to try ready-made theories by, says the history of discovery; it's all the same, says the idolater; nonsense, say we !" But nothing of this will fit in with what we know of Bradley's work ; he discovered aberration, not by any help
Page 135 - science for a term of three years. The candidate must]., further satisfy the commissioners (a) that he has obtained? or can within one month of election obtain, a post in some" engineering or other manufacturing works approved by them

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