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John By
(7 Aug 1779 - 1 Feb 1836)
English military engineer who constructed the 126-mile (202-km) Rideau Canal connecting the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario, Canada
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Science Quotes by John By (1 quote)
Colonel John By, Royal Engineers; 1830
—as imagined by an artist (known only as “C.K.”) showing the Colonel as a military man, but without authenticity. (source)
—as imagined by an artist (known only as “C.K.”) showing the Colonel as a military man, but without authenticity. (source)
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness … evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.
(In recognition of his achievement building the Rideau Canal.)
(In recognition of his achievement building the Rideau Canal.)
— John By
Address by the Montreal Committee of Trade. Quoted in 'John By', University of Toronto Press, Dictionary of Canadian Biography (1966), vol.7, 130.
See also:
- 7 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of By's birth.
- John By - Biography
- Building the Rideau Canal: A Pictorial History, by Robert W. Passfield. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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