| John Tyndall - 1870 - 116 páginas
...action in weak vessels and were unduly impressed by its disasters. But they might with equal justice point to exploded boilers as an argument against the...moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. When William Thomson tries to place the ultimate particles of matter between his compass points, and... | |
| 1870 - 398 páginas
...to exploded boilers as an argument against the use of steam. " Nourished by knowledge patiently won, bounded and conditioned by co-operant reason, imagination...was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. In Faraday the exercise of this faculty preceded all his experiments. In fact, without this power, our... | |
| John Tyndall - 1870 - 92 páginas
...argument against the use of steam. Bounded and conditioned by cooperant Reason, imagination bejjcomes the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer....moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. When William Thomson tries to place the ultimate particles of matter between his compass points, and... | |
| John Tyndall - 1871 - 438 páginas
...action in weak vessels, and were unduly impressed by its disasters. But they might with equal justice point to exploded boilers as an argument against the...moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. When William Thomson tries to place the ultimate particles of matter between his compass-points, and... | |
| John Tyndall - 1871 - 436 páginas
...to exploded boilers as an argument against the use of steam. Bounded and conditioned by coftperant Reason, imagination becomes the mightiest instrument...moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. When William Thomson tries to place the ultimate particles of matter between his compass-points, and... | |
| 1874 - 796 páginas
...to exploded boilers as an argument against the use of steam. " Nourished by knowledge patiently won, bounded and conditioned by co-operant reason, imagination...was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination. In Faraday the exercise of this faculty preceded all his experiments. In fact, without this power, our... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 páginas
...problems of physics, " spiritual insight." " Bounded and conditioned by cooperant reason," says Tyndall, "imagination becomes the mightiest instrument of the...moon was at the outset a leap of the imagination. When William Thomson tries to place the ultimate particles of matter between his compass-points, and... | |
| Monday Club (Boston). - 1892 - 422 páginas
...imagination," as Professor Tyndall names it, by which the discoverer springs from facts to principles. " Newton's passage from a falling apple to a falling...moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination." But in spiritual things this slowness of intellect is further crippled by spiritual incompetence. Sin... | |
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 páginas
...Reason; imagination becomes the prime mover of the physical discoverer. Newton's passage from a falling 1 apple to a falling moon was, at the outset, a leap of the prepared imagination. In Faraday the exercise of this faculty preceded all his experiments, and its... | |
| James Laurence Laughlin - 1885 - 170 páginas
...action in weak vessels, and were unduly impressed by its disasters. But they might with equal justice point to exploded boilers as an argument against the...moon was, at the outset, a leap of the imagination." * The use of the imagination is, in my opinion, still more necessary in political economy than in the... | |
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