 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...perfection; " which feems the moft of any thing to require the help of " fight." But, if we confides that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the fenfe of feeling, as that of fight ; that a fixed and fteady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...geometry also, to a very great perfection, which seemi most of all to require eight But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired by the sense of feeling as that of sight, that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...geometry also to very great perfection, which seems most of all to require sight. But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired by the sense of feeling as that of sight, that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...to perfection, which seems the most of any thing to require the help of sight." But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...to perfection, which seems the most of any thing to require the help of sight." But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...to perfection, which seems the most of any thing to require the help of sight." But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...to perfection, which seems the most of any thing to require the help of sight." But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the chief objects of mathematics, may-as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of eight ; that a fixed and steady attention... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 910 pages
...geometry also, to a very great perfection, which seems most of all to require sight. But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired by the sense of feeling as that of sight, that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...geometry also, to a very great perfection, which seems most of all to require sight. But if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired by the sense of feeling as that of sight, that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 382 pages
...geometry also, to a very great perfection, which seems most of all to require sight. But if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the...chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired by the sense of feeling as that of sight, that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification... | |
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But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification for this study... 
