Frases de Thomas Young Davis

Thomas Young [1]​ fue un científico inglés. Young es célebre por su experimento de la doble rendija que mostraba la naturaleza ondulatoria de la luz y por haber ayudado a descifrar los jeroglíficos egipcios a partir de la piedra Rosetta. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. junio 1773 – 10. mayo 1829
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Frases célebres de Thomas Young Davis

“Cuando era un niño, me creía un hombre. Ahora que sí soy un hombre, me encuentro como un niño.”

Fuente: Citado en Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930)

“La naturaleza de la luz es un tema que no tiene importancia material para las preocupaciones de la vida o para la práctica de las artes, pero es en muchos otros aspectos muy interesante.”

Fuente: Thomas Young: Conferencia 39, On the Nature of Light and Colours, A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1845), Vol. 1, 359.

“Si el calor no es una sustancia, entonces debe ser una cualidad; esta cualidad sólo puede ser el movimiento.”

Fuente: Citado en Richard J. Weiss, Breve storia della luce: arte e scienza dal Rinascimento a oggi, trad. de Elisabetta Maurutto, ed. Dedalo, Bari 2005.

Thomas Young Davis: Frases en inglés

“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”

as quoted by Horatio B. Williams, Thomas Young, The Man and Physician, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 20, 35-49 (1930).

“This statement appears to us to be conclusive with respect to the insufficiency of the undulatory theory, in its present state, for explaining all the phenomena of light. But we are not therefore by any means persuaded of the perfect sufficiency of the projectile system: and all the satisfaction that we have derived from an attentive consideration of the accumulated evidence, which has been brought forward, within the last ten years, on both sides of the question, is that of being convinced that much more evidence is still wanting before it can be positively decided. In the progress of scientific investigation, we must frequently travel by rugged paths, and through valleys as well as over mountains. Doubt must necessarily succeed often to apparent certainty, and must again give place to a certainty of a higher order; such is the imperfection of our faculties, that the descent from conviction to hesitation is not uncommonly as salutary, as the more agreeable elevation from uncertainty to demonstration. An example of such alternations may easily be adduced from the history of chemistry. How universally had phlogiston once expelled the aërial acid of Hooke and Mayow. How much more completely had phlogiston given way to oxygen! And how much have some of our best chemists been lately inclined to restore the same phlogiston to its lost honours! although now again they are beginning to apprehend that they have already done too much in its favour. In the mean time, the true science of chemistry, as the most positive dogmatist will not hesitate to allow, has been very rapidly advancing towards ultimate perfection.”

Miscellaneous Works: Scientific Memoirs (1855) Vol. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=-XAXAQAAMAAJ, ed. George Peacock & John Leitch, p. 249

“Besides these improvements,… there are others,… which may… be interesting to those… engaged in those departments… Among these may be ranked, in the division of mechanics, properly so called, a simple demonstration of the law of the force by which a body revolves in an ellipsis; another of the properties of cycloidal pendulums; an examination of the mechanism of animal motions; a comparison of the measures and weights of different countries; and a convenient estimate of the effect of human labour: with respect to architecture, a simple method of drawing the outline of a column: an investigation of the best forms for arches; a determination of the curve which affords the greatest space for turning; considerations on the structure of the joints employed in carpentry, and on the firmness of wedges; and an easy mode of forming a kirb roof: for the purposes of machinery of different kinds, an arrangement of bars for obtaining rectilinear motion; an inquiry into the most eligible proportions of wheels and pinions; remarks on the friction of wheel work, and of balances; a mode of finding the form of a tooth for impelling a pallet without friction; a chronometer for measuring minute portions of time; a clock escapement; a calculation of the effect of temperature on steel springs; an easy determination of the best line of draught for a carriage; an investigation of the resistance to be overcome by a wheel or roller; and an estimation of the ultimate pressure produced by a blow.”

Preface
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)

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