 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 lapas
...engaged in the instruction of students in the Universities, that the results of the differential caldulus are received by many rather with the doubts of imperfect...conviction. Nor Is this to be wondered at; a clear understand-- ing of many difficult steps, a distinct perception that every connexion of these steps... | |
 | 1835 - 570 lapas
...long train of machinery in a profound analytical process. Tile degrees of conviction in the two canes are very different. It is known to every one who has been engaged in the instruction of students in the Universities, that the results of the differential caleulus are received by many rather with... | |
 | William Ritchie - 1836 - 198 lapas
...interesting. branch of mathematical science. Professor Airy, in his elegant work on " Gravitation," remarks, " It is known to every one who has been engaged in the...than with the confidence of rational conviction." This in all probability arises, not so much from the nature of the subject itself, as from the abstract... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (Civil engineer) - 1839 - 300 lapas
...those, whose resources allow them to repair to the universities, as is remarked by Professor Airy, " The results of the differential calculus are received...than with the confidence of rational conviction."* ON THE LENGTH OF BOILERS. 175. When a boiler is to be set up in the simplest possible manner, that... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1847 - 648 lapas
...long train of machinery in a profound analytical process. The degrees of conviction in the two ca^es are very different. It is known to every one who has...doubts of imperfect faith than with the confidence of raiional conviction. Nor is thin to be wondered at ; a clear understmding of many difficult steps,... | |
 | 1847 - 650 lapas
...putting in play the long train of machinery in a profound analytical process. The degrees of convictiOD in the two cases are very different. It is known to...has been engaged in the instruction of students at oar universities, that the results of the differential calculus are received by many, rather with the... | |
 | W. P. Higgs - 1876 - 122 lapas
...awe ; and, if bold enough to question, receives its teachings, as Professor Airy has aptly said, " rather with the doubts of imperfect faith than with the confidence of rational conviction." In his ' Principles of the Differential Calculus,' Mr. Woolhouse observes, with only too much reason,... | |
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... conclusion is geometrically in close connexion with the first cause, is very different from that which it receives from putting in play the long train of machinery in a profound analytical process. The degrees of conviction in the two cases are very... 