 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...lao-.-li^rder principles fmrn bu:-*.-. and keeping theory always dependent upon obsenration : a lv<>k that keeps the reason of the student active while he strives to matter detail- difficult but never without interest, and that furnishes him with rat*n> for practising... | |
 | sir Robert George C. Hamilton - 1869 - 122 pages
...London. Second Edition, with Solutions. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 8s. 6d.) ' A too rare example of what a good elementary text-book in any science...master details difficult but never without interest.' — Examiner. An Elementary Treatise on Heat, with numerous Woodcuts and Diagrams. By BALFOUR STEWART,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1869 - 120 pages
...London. Second Edition, "with Solutions. (Ext. fcap. 8vo., cloth, price 8s. 6d.) ' A too rare example of what a good elementary text-book in any science...master details difficult but never without interest.' — Examiner. An Elementary Treatise on Heat, with numerous Woodcuts and Diagrams. By BALFOUR STEWART,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1873 - 742 pages
...elementary text-book in any science ought to be : the language brief, simple, exact ; the îrrangement logical, developing in lucid order principles from...master details difficult but never without interest"— Examiner. EXERCISES IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY. By AG Vernon Harcourt, MA, FRS, Senior Student of Christ... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe - Chemistry - 1869 - 506 pages
...from facts, and keeping theory always dependent upon observation ; a book that keeps the reason 1''' the student active while he strives to master details difficult but never withoni interest, and that furnishes him with means for practising himself in the rJ^hr management... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1870 - 694 pages
...textbook in any science ought to be : the language, brief, simple, exact ; the arrangement logicai, developing in lucid order principles from facts, and...details difficult but never without interest, and [hat furnishes him with means for practising himself in the right management of each new tool of knowledge... | |
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... logical, developing in lucid order principles from facts, and keeping theory always dependent upon observation ; a book that keeps the reason of the student active while he strives to master details difficult but never without interest. 