| John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 622 pages
...electromagnetic telegraph was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted and the mathematical investigations of Ampere : and...the purely speculative and apparently merely curious enquiry, by the mathematicians of Alexandria, into the properties of three curves formed by the intersection... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 pages
...electromagnetic telegraph was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted and the mathematical investigations of Ampere : and...by the intersection of a plane surface and a cone. No limit can be set to the importance, even in a purely productive and material point of view, of mere... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1852 - 672 pages
...electromagnetic telegraph was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted and the mathematical investigations of Ampere : and...the purely speculative and apparently merely curious enquiry, by the mathematicians of Alexandria, into the properties of three curves formed by the intersection... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 550 pages
...to pure Science have either forgotten, or never learnt, that, in the words of an eminent writer, " the modern art of navigation is an unforeseen emanation...by the intersection of a plane surface and a cone." The Steam-Engine itself, so simple in its origin, and yet so fruitful of great results, derived its... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 572 pages
...to pure Science have either forgotten, or never learnt, that, in the words of an eminent writer, " the modern art of navigation is an unforeseen emanation...by the intersection of a plane surface and a cone." The Steam-Engine itself, so simple in its origin, and yet so fruitful of great results, derived its... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 632 pages
...electromagnetic telegraph was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted and the mathematical investigations of Ampere : and...the purely speculative and apparently merely curious enquiry, by the mathematicians of Alexandria, into the properties of three curves formed by the intersection... | |
| 1865 - 792 pages
...of knowledge of the powers of nature being fruitful of applications to the purposes of outward life. The electro-magnetic telegraph was the wonderful and...by the intersection of a plane surface and a cone. No limit can be set to the importance, even in a purely productive and material point of view, of mere... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 628 pages
...electromagnetic telegraph was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted aud the mathematical investigations of Ampere : and the...speculative and apparently merely curious inquiry, by the mathe' maricians of Alexandria, into the properties of three curves formed by the intersection of a... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1870 - 632 pages
...telegraph "was the wonderful and most unexpected consequence of the experiments of CErsted and tin mathematical investigations of Ampere : and the modern...by the intersection of a plane surface and a cone. ~No limit can be set to the importance, even in a purely productive and material point of view, of... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1875 - 624 pages
...mathematical investigations of Amf-'re : and the modern art of navigation is an unforeseen emanation from tho purely speculative and apparently merely curious inquiry,...formed by the intersection of a plane surface and a coae. Ho limit can be set to the importance, even in a purely productive and material point of view,... | |
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