Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 466
ing all the tints save one,■but itself supplying none. The tendency of the study of science to increaseour interest in the great spectacle of Nature, and to enhance our appre-ciation of her charms, has been more justly indicated by another poet —tiius : Nor ever yetThe melting rainbows vernal… … Fig. 215.—Portrait of Professor Kirchhojff: THE SPECTROSCOPE. IXyrANY of the modern discoveries and inventions already described in^^ these pages have been instances of practical applications of scienceto the every-day wants of mankind; but the chief interest of the subjectwe now enter upon flows…
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