Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes - Paperback

by Charles Babbage (Author)

It cannot have escaped the attention of those, whose acquirements enable them to judge, and who have had opportunities of examining the state of science in other countries, that in England, particularly with respect to the more difficult and abstract sciences, we are much below other nations, not merely of equal rank, but below several even of inferior power.