 ... Boyle, and Cavendish, and Maskelyne, and Herschel. Young's most famous experiment of stopping the rays which passed on one side of a thin card exposed to a sunbeam in a dark chamber Brougham threw aside, with the assertion that the experiment was...  Life of Thomas Young - Pagina 143di George Peacock - 1855 - 514 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Richard James Morrison - 768 pagine
...There is another resource — to deny it. 'Conscious,' says Young, in his most triumphant reply, ' of inability to explain the experiment, too ungenerous...to advance the supposition that it was incorrect.' It is humiliating to be obliged to add, that Lord Brougham's ribaldry had the effect of checking the... | |
 | 1861 - 338 pagine
...undulatory theory : it was, indeed, a crucial experiment. Dr. Young replied in these triumphant words: — "Conscious of inability to explain the experiment,...to advance the supposition that it was incorrect." This reply was printed by Dr. Young in a pampblet, of which only one copy was sold f The Edinburgh... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1869 - 724 pagine
...he came to the experiment gratuitously explained away by awkward manipulation, he says : — CHAP, repeat the experiment, he is compelled to advance...it was incorrect, and to insinuate that my hand may ,„ „ easilv have erred through a space so narrow as one-thirtieth of An 1803— * ' 1805. an inch.... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pagine
...aside, with the assertion that the experiment was inaccurately made. Dr. Young replied : The reviewer has here afforded me an opportunity for a triumph,...to advance the supposition that it was incorrect. ' Let him make the experiment, and then deny tho result if he can.' He took no special means to make... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 pagine
...aside, with the assertion that the experiment was inaccurately made. Dr. Young replied : The reviewer has here afforded me an opportunity for a triumph,...inability, and too idle to repeat the experiment, ho is compelled to advance the supposition that it was incorrect. ' Let him make the experiment, and... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1875 - 590 pagine
...to the experiment gratuitously explained away by awkward manipulation, he says : — "The Reviewer has here afforded me an opportunity for a triumph...be where an enemy is so contemptible. Conscious of inabilityto explain the experiment, too ungenerous to confess that inability, and too idle to repeat... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pagine
...from Young another of his purple passages :1 The reviewer has afforded me, in the next observation, an opportunity for a triumph as gratifying as any triumph can be where the enemy is so contemptible. Conscious of his inability to explain the experiment which I have advanced,... | |
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