 | John Smeaton - Water-wheels - 1760 - 96 pages
...neceflkry to dillinguifh the circumftances in which a model differs from a machine in large; -otherwife a model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it. Hence the common obfervaA a tion, 181562 tion, that a thIng may do very well in a model, that will not anfwer in large.... | |
 | John Smeaton - Mechanical engineering - 1796 - 144 pages
...neceffary to diftinguim the circumftances in which a model differs from a machine in large ; otherwife a model is more apt to lead us from the truth' than towards it. Hence the common obfervation, that a thing may do very well in a model that will not anfwer in large. And, indeed, though... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 778 pages
...thinks the best means of obtaining the outlines in mechanical inquiries. But in this case it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which...a thing may do very well in a model, that will not answer in large. And indeed, though the utmost circumspection be used in this way, the best structure... | |
 | John Smeaton - Civil engineering - 1814 - 276 pages
...neceflary to diftinguifh the circumftances in which a model differs from a machine in large ; otherwife a model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it. Hence the common obfervation, that a thing may do very well in a model that will not anfwer in large. And, indeed, though... | |
 | John Nicholson (civil engineer.) - Great Britain - 1825 - 1008 pages
...best means of obtaining the outlines in mechanical inquiry. " But in such cases," says he, "it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which...more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it: and, indeed, though the utmost circumspection be used in this way, the best structure of machines cannot... | |
 | John Nicholson (Esq. Civil Engineer.) - Great Britain - 1831 - 628 pages
...But in such cases," says he, " it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which a mode! differs from a machine in large ; otherwise a model...more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it : and, indeed, though 'the utmost circumspection be used in this way, the best structure of machines... | |
 | Thomas Tredgold - Hydraulic engineering - 1836 - 288 pages
...upon as the best means of obtaining the outlines in mechanical inquiries. But in this case it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which...a thing may do very well in a model that will not answer in large. And, indeed, though the utmost circumspection be used in this way, the best structure... | |
 | Russell McCormmach - Science - 2004 - 278 pages
...it was always necessary to indicate how a model differs from the actual machine, for otherwise the "model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it."94 The same would have been said of theoretical models in natural philosophy. Closely related to... | |
 | Julián Simón Calero - Science - 2008 - 518 pages
...although he does not overlook the fact that working with models must de done with care, as 'it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which a model differs from a real large machine; otherwise a model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it'. Fig.... | |
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But in this case it is very necessary to distinguish the circumstances in which a model differs from a machine in large ; otherwise a model is more apt to lead us from the truth than towards it. 