Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 255
in the prosecution of his favorite investigations.Thus, familiar as he was with the phenomena of astronomy andthe practical parts of mechanics, and admirable as was his inge-nuity in mechanical invention, he knew nothing, or next to nothing,either of abstract mathematics or of the higher parts of… … SAMUEL CROMPTON. SAMUEL CROMPTON. 249 than a man of science. This was more peculiarly the sort of perilto which self-educated men were exposed in Fergusons day, whenbooks of any kind were comparatively scarce, and good elementaryworks scarcely existed on any subject. Much has since been done,and is…
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