 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 466 pages
...celebrated mathematician and aftronomer. He collected all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras,...regularity and order, with many others of his own difcovering : upon which account he is faid to have been the rirft who reduced arithmetic and geometry... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 576 pages
...delivered down by Thaïes, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, which he digcfted into regularity and order, with many others of his...reduced arithmetic and geometry into the form of a fcicnce. He applied himfelf alfo to the mixed mathematics, and efpecially to aftronomy, in which he... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...delivered down by Thale*j Pythagora«, Eurfoxos, and other mathematicians before Mm, which digested into regularity and order, with many others of his own: on which account he is »id to hav* been the first who reduced arithmetic and geometry into the form of a science. Where this... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...Theon, &c. &c. He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of uU own discovering : on which account it is (aid he was the first who reduced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...Theon, &c. &c. He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many, others of his own discovering: on which account it is said he was the first who reduced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 528 pages
...Theon, &c. &c. He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of his own discovering : on which account it is said Ile was the first who reduced... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...Theon, &c. &c. He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of his own discovering : on which account it is said he was the 6rst who reduced... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1825 - 1006 pages
...Theon, &c. &c. He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of his own discovering ; on which account, it is said he was the first who reduced... | |
 | Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...Euclid reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which hud been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of his own : on which account it is said he was the first who reduced arithmetic... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1820 - 458 pages
...delivered down by Thaïes, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, which he digested into regularity and order, with many others of his own: on which account he is said to have been the first who reduced arithmetic and geometry into the form of a science. When this... | |
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He reduced into regularity and order all the fundamental principles of pure mathematics, which had been delivered down by Thales, Pythagoras, Eudoxus, and other mathematicians before him, and added many others of his own... 
