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Long Intervals Frequently Elapse Between The Discovery Of New Principles In Science And Their Practical Application... Those Intellectual Qualifications, Which Give Birth To New Principles Or To New Methods, Are Of Quite A Different Order From Those Which Are Necessary For Their Practical Application.

To Those Who Have Chosen The Profession Of Medicine, A Knowledge Of Chemistry, And Of Some Branches Of Natural History, And, Indeed, Of Several Other Departments Of Science, Affords Useful Assistance.

Mr. Herschel... Brought With Him The Calculations Of The Computers, And We Commenced The Tedious Process Of Verification. After A Time Many Discrepancies Occurred, And At One Point These Discordances Were So Numerous That I Exclaimed, "i Wish To God These Calculations Had Been Executed By Steam," To Which Herschel Replied, "it Is Quite Possible."

In Turning From The Smaller Instruments In Frequent Use To The Larger And More Important Machines, The Economy Arising From The Increase Of Velocity Becomes More Striking.

I Wish To God These Calculations Had Been Executed By Steam.