AND FOREWORD BY SIR R. T. GLAZEBROOK, K.C.B., D.Sc., F.R.S.
“Historia, quoquo modo scripta delectat.”—Pliny.
“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.”—Virgil.
“Il importe beaucoup de connaître l’histoire de la science à laquelle on s’attache.”—Éloge de Boerhaave.
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read in the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is found in its nascent state. Every student of science should, in fact, be an antiquary in his subject.”—J. Clerk Maxwell.
“Les tâtonnements de nos prédécesseurs nous apprennent à marcher avec plus de sûreté, et l’on ne sait jamais mieux conduire la science en avant que lorsqu’on sait le chemin qu’elle a parcouru jusqu’à nous.”—J. P. Rossignol.
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