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Sir John Leslie
(10 Apr 1766 - 3 Nov 1832)
Scottish physicist and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Sir John Leslie (1)
The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
— Sir John Leslie
'Dissertation Fifth: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, chiefly during the Eighteenth Century', Encyclopedia Britannica, 7th edn. (1842), 743. In John Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993), 17.
