"Volta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... statistician failed, and only the mathematician could help. Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, and himself. Watt could have given in pounds the increase of power between Newcomen's engines and his own. Volta and Benjamin Franklin would have stated their progress as absolute creation of power. Dalton could have measured minutely his advance on Boerhaave. Napoleon I must have had a distinct notion of his own numerical relation to Louis XIV. No one in 1789 doubted the progress of force, least of all those ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... son siecle," is not always true: if the new truth be difficult of demonstration it will be proportionately tardy of reception, but if easy of proof it is very rapidly received. As an example of this we may instance the discovery of Volta. In the history of physical science, never was a more sudden leap taken than by this illustrious man—that a juxtaposition of matter in its least organic form should produce such surprising effects ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... regions; Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... volta gieri biele, Blanch' e rossa com' un flore, Ma ora no. Non son piu biele Consumatis ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset |
