Pioneers of science / [Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge].

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1904
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Credit: Pioneers of science / [Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subject of the tides; the theoretical study of which, started by Newton, has developed, and is destined in the future to further develop, into one of the most gigantic and absorbing investigations—having to do with the stability or instability of solar systems, and with the construction and decay of universes. These theories are the work of pioneers now living, whose biographies it is therefore unsuitable for us to discuss; nor shall I constantly mention their names. But Helmholtz, and Kelvin, are household words, and you well know that in them and their disciples the race of Pioneers maintains its ancient glory.