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John Theophile Desaguliers
(12 Mar 1683 - 29 Feb 1744)
French-English chaplain and physicist who was an experimental assistant to Sir Isaac Newton. Desaguliers used his skills to demonstrate experiments in his own course of popular lectures to non-academic audiences. He investigated electricity, and was an active inventor and engineer.
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Science Quotes by John Theophile Desaguliers (1 quote)
All the knowledge we have of nature depends upon facts; for without observations and experiments our natural philosophy would only be a science of terms and an unintelligible jargon.
— John Theophile Desaguliers
First sentence of 'Preface', Course of Experimental Philosophy (1745), Vol. 1, v.
See also:
- 12 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Desaguliers's birth.
- John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England, by Audrey T. Carpenter. - 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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