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Balfour Stewart

(1 Nov 1828 - 19 Dec 1887)

Scottish geophysicist and meteorologist.

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I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.

— Balfour Stewart

to Henry Roscoe, Professor of Chemistry at Owens College (2 Jun 1870), B.C.S Archive Quoted in R.H. Kargon, Science in Victorian Manchester (1977), 215.

See also: | Experiment (218) | Mathematics (226) | Physics (70)

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