 | 1814 - 556 pages
...6t Euclid's propositions. Accordingly the next morning he brought me the con^truttion drawn out on a sheet of pasteboard, saying he esteemed it a treasure, having found it quite right. " How he found it to be right, is not said ; it was probably by measuring the radius of each circle... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 442 pages
...Euclid's propositions. Accordingly " the next morning, with a joyful countenance, he brought me the <c construction, neatly drawn out on a large sheet of...a curiosity, in his " Select Mechanical Exercises, page 123. Printed in 1773. " Very soon after the first publication of the solution of the Diary <c... | |
 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...had never learned geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any of Euclid's problems. Accordingly, the next morning, with a joyful countenance,...it quite right, as every point and line agreed to a hair'sbreadth by measurement on the scale." There is something in a fact like this which is more than... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any one of Euclid's propositions. Accordingly, next morning, with a joyful countenance, he brought me the construction neatly drawn out on a large sht-'et of pasteboard, laying he esteemed it a treasure, having found it quite right, as every point... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...frankly replied he had never learned any Geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any of Euclid's propositions. , " Accordingly the next...to a hair's breadth by measurement on the scale." 2W This problem and 2M Charles Hutton, LL.D., FRS, &c., an eminent Mathematician, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne,... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...frankly replied he had never learned any Geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any of Euclid's propositions. " Accordingly the next morning,...to a hair's breadth by measurement on the scale." 16t This problem and '•">4 Charles Hutton, LL.D., FKS, &c., an eminent Mathematician, born at Newcastle-oii-Tyne,... | |
 | England - 1883 - 830 pages
...had never learned geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any of Euclid's problems. Accordingly, the next morning, with a joyful countenance,...it quite right, as every point and line agreed to a hair'sbreadth by measurement on the scale." There is something in a fact like this which is more than... | |
 | J. L. Heilbron - History - 2000 - 344 pages
...demonstration of any of Euclid's propositions. His method of 'proof was to draw a diagram exactly to scale. 'Accordingly the next morning. with a joyful countenance. he brought me the construction [of the grindstone problem]. neatly drawn out on a large sheet of paste-board. saying he esteemed it... | |
 | Scotland - 1883 - 826 pages
...had never learned geometry, nor could ever understand the demonstration of any of Euclid's problems. Accordingly, the next morning, with a joyful countenance,...sheet of pasteboard, saying he esteemed it a treasure, haying found it quite right, as every point and line agreed to a hair'sbreadth by measurement on the... | |
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Accordingly, the next morning, with a joyful countenance, he brought me the construction neatly drawn out on a large sheet of pasteboard, saying he esteemed it a treasure, having found it quite right, as every point and line agreed to a hair'sbreadth... 