Meteorological Essays and Observations Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ... jurare in verba magistri." and who wait for the ex cathedra fiat, to form their opinions. Perhaps, however, I ought not to be surprised that so simple a contrivance should not a Of the difficulty, to the uninitiated, of approaching the shrines whence the oracles of science are issued, some idea may be formed from the following circumstance. Being actuated by the wish to obtain contemporaneous observations, and to do all in my power to facilitate so desirable an object, and my own opinion being confirmed by those whose judgment I could not doubt, I took an opportunity of aending, by a private hand, two of the hygrometers, in their most perfect state, to one of the Philosophera of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, the most distinguished for chemical knowledge and discoveries. I requested his opinion of the merits of the instrument, and authorized him to present one of them, in the moat respectful way to the Academy. My presumption has, I suppoae, been properly checked, by no notice whatever having been taken of what was certainly meant as a mark of humble respect, either by the individual, or the learned body: to the former of whom, having had the advantage of a personal introduction, I cannot feel that I have been: to blame in addressing myaelf, however small may have been my pretensions for obtruding myself upon the latter. have found its way across the channel to continental philosophers, when, as it appears, even the Tweed has been able to impede its progress in our 6Wh island. Professor Leslie, in an article upon meteorology," in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published three years after my first paper on the hygrometer, in one solitary remark upon the experiment of Le Roi, and the dew-po'int, observes, " Could this me...