Transactions And Proceedings Of The Royal Society Of Victoria 1887 Vol 23

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1887, Vol. 23 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1887, Vol. 23: Edited Under the Authority of the Council of the Society, Issued 20th April, 1887 The progress of Science, though a natural and orderly development, does not take place at a uniform rate. New discoveries do not succeed each other with the regularity of the seasons. On the contrary, there are often long periods of apparent stagnation, or at least of but little visible advancement, with intervening epochs of brilliant success. Just as the miner often labours for weeks and months with insignificant returns, and then by a single stroke of the pick unearths a gem of fabulous value, so the scientific investigator may spend weary years of patient research with but little to show for his toil, and then at one happy stroke dazzle the world by some brilliant discovery. Incalculable labour is often expended in following up a wrong clue, in tracing down to the bitter end a path that leads nowhere. Such labour is not really lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.