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" The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects... "
Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians - Page 96
by Michael Gorman - 1998 - 196 pages
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A treatise on astronomy

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802 - 590 pages
...movements and 1 32 JD/v Smith's Rcmaflc on Systems, " effects which are already in reality performed. " The machines that are first invented to perform " any particular movement are always the most com" plex ; and succeeding artists generally discover " that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed. The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex; and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion than...
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Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 2

William Archer Butler, William Hepworth Thompson - Philosophy, Ancient - 1857 - 428 pages
...Philosophical Subjects, p. 44. Most of the foregoing statements come from the name source. ED.] are at first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex; and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels, with, fewer principles of motion,...
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Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation ...

Adam Smith - English essays - 1869 - 498 pages
...together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed. The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion,...
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions ...

Henry George - Economics - 1879 - 600 pages
...CORRELATION AND CO-ORDINATION OF THESE LAWS. CHAPTEE VIII. — THE STATICS OP THE PROBLEM THUS EXPLAINED. The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion than...
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Essays Philosophical and Literary

Adam Smith - Ethics - 1880 - 542 pages
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Progress and poverty, Volume 142

Henry George - 1882 - 104 pages
...produce poverty amid advancing wealth. BOOK III.— THE LAWS OF DISTRIBUTION. The machines that arc first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion than...
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The Republic of the Future

J. fl. 1883 Hagerty - Political science - 1883 - 26 pages
...STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The republic of the future, " Unjverslty Libraries Dr. Adam Smith says : " The machines that are first invented to perform any...particular movement are 'always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally 'discover that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 262

Early English newspapers - 1887 - 642 pages
...perfect and simplify his invention in order to bring it into general use. For, as Adam Smith says,1 " The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion than...
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The Complete Works of Henry George: perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer

Henry George - Economics - 1911 - 594 pages
...OF WAGES. •CORRELATION AND CO-ORDINATION OF THESE LAWS. THE STATICS OF THB PROBLEM THUS EXPLAINED. The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that -with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion...
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