Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
