"Logarithm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the same purpose as that for which the watchmaker employs tools. If, before writing down his observation on a star, the astronomer has to separate from it all the errors resulting from atmospheric and optical laws, it is manifest that the refraction-tables, and logarithm-books, and formulae, which he successively uses, serve him much as retorts, and filters, and cupels serve the assayer who wishes to separate the pure gold ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer |
