| 单词 | geometer |
| 例句 | He used his stay in prison to reinvent the concept of a point at infinity, and combining it with Monge’s work, he became the first true projective geometer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is an abstract or theoretical chair, a geometer’s chair, not a real chair. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pythagoras had learned the triangle theorem—that the length of the third side of a right-angled triangle can be deduced mathematically from the length of the other two sides—from Indian or Babylonian geometers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That feeling of mystical revelation — of a shimmering, underlying order that we can apprehend if we purify our perception — might explain the mutual affinity between poets and geometers. ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Chief geometer Jean des Garets said the shrinking could have been caused by less rain this summer. France's highest mountain Mont Blanc is shrinking 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Like the ancient geometer Euclid, the neural net had somehow intuitively discerned a mathematical truth, but the logical “why” of it was far from obvious. A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “When you try to build a curved object out of flat material, there’s always a fundamental tension,” said Keenan Crane, a geometer and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. They’re Taking Jigsaws to Infinity and Beyond 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z These arguments, much as a geometer might consider the nature of a triangle and then prove a theorem concerning triangularity, do not appeal to experience. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Once, we took the train to Poughkeepsie to meet George Odom, an accomplished amateur geometer and an inpatient at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center. Travels With John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Rouse Ball’s classic work, “Mathematical Recreations and Essays,” and wrote Coxeter a lengthy letter that started a lifelong friendship between these two classical geometers. John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z He stayed there for his doctorate under W. V. D. Hodge, a geometer active in international mathematical organizations. Michael F. Atiyah (1929–2019) 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Jhabvala is an artful geometer, and she skews her angles boldly. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Mathematicians around the world were buzzing about the prospect of renowned theorist and geometer Michael Atiyah presenting a simple, new proof to the Riemann hypothesis, a challenging problem that has remained unsolved for 160 years. Top stories: a one-word Turing test, honey bees at risk, and Indigenous genome experts 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Geometry: As discussed above, geometers like yours truly are great at loading the dishwasher. Household Chores for Mathematicians 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z She is, to my mind, a geometer, the most artful constructor of points. At the French Open, Fearlessness Wins 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z A consensus emerged that the highlight of the workshop was a lecture on 9 December by Kiran Kedlaya, an arithmetic geometer from the University of California, San Diego. Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z One by one, the distinguished senior geometers stood up to praise the absent Perelman, who had not yet decided to refuse the Clay Institute's million dollars. A Glimpse into How Mathematicians Party [Excerpt] 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On a wall in Dr. Simons’s office is one of his prides: a framed picture of equations known as Chern-Simons, after a paper he wrote with Shiing-Shen Chern, a prominent geometer. A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z You will often find algebraic geometers discussing fields and sheaves because they secretly wish they were farmers. Household Chores for Mathematicians 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Participants will be able to tape their own paper Pringles, known as hyperbolic surfaces among geometers, from cutout templates. The Scan: Return of the the Fly Room; Time, Explained 2013-04-22T17:58:27Z Dr. Mochizuki’s new mathematical language — on his Web page, he describes himself as an “inter-universal geometer” — is at present incomprehensible even to other top mathematicians. Possible Breakthrough in Math’s ABC Conjecture 2012-09-17T21:02:03Z When a geometer wishes to understand the form of a curve, he first resolves it into small rectilinear elements. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Spherical astronomy had its origin with the Alexandrian school, many famous geometers, and in particular Euclid, pointing the way. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The most complete and logical discussion of this part of the works of the great geometer that we have seen. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z Plato defined it as "the beginning of a line," thus presupposing the definition of "line"; and, strangely enough, he anticipated by two thousand years Cavalieri, the Italian geometer, by speaking of points as "indivisible lines." The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The main strength of the Platonist geometers lies in stereometry or the geometry of solids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The more proper course is, to regard the abstract determinative elements of a fact as interdependent, in a purely logical way, as the mathematician or geometer does. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z He discusses, too, the postulates of his system and exhibits great skill as an original geometer and mathematician. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Euclid, the great geometer of Hellenistic Alexandria, was well aware of the fact that the closing of square paths is not a priori true. What Do You Mean, the Universe Is Flat? Part II: In Which We Actually Answer the Question 2011-08-01T11:45:06.053Z The French geometer, Lacroix, who wrote more than a century ago, proposed to limit the propositions to those needed to prove other important ones, and those needed in practical mathematics. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z “Diogenianas began and said, ‘Let us admit Plato to the conference, and inquire upon what account he says—supposing it to be his sentence—that God always plays the geometer.’ The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In truth, from the amount of the recession a geometer could actually determine the distance of the trees from us without ever going near them. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z But this broad scratch is not the line recognized by the microscopist, to say nothing of the geometer. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z We can conceive occurrences which would give us evidence that the Moon, as well as the Earth, contains geometers. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z As far as possible, Euclid and all other good geometers avoid the proof by superposition. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z “Our fields are arranged in just such figures, and the geometers of the state study them at school.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z It contains the Elements and the Data, which are, says the editor, certainly the only works which remain to us of this ever-celebrated geometer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Aristophanes, in the "Birds," introduces a geometer, who announces his intention to make a square circle. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Gold and other metals have, for the basis of their forms, the cube, but run from this into a vastly greater variety of regular solids than ever geometer dreamt of. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z The French geometer, Legendre, gave a rigorous proof by reductio ad absurdum. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In his own person he has brought us—why, whom you will—critic, rhetorician, geometer, painter, trainer, prophet, rope-dancer, doctor, sorcerer. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z To this question no entirely satisfactory answer can be given, for scarcely any of the writings of earlier geometers have come down to our times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But the lines of the geometer have no breadth. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z Perhaps it should be enough for us to know that his contemporaries spoke of him as "the great geometer," though they were familiar with Euclid's book and with Archimedes' mighty work. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z The logicians profess to show the way, but the geometers alone ever reach it, and aside from their science there is no genuine demonstration.—Pascal. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Like the great geometer of Syracuse, Archimedes, who had ever been her inspiration in the study of mathematics, she would have died rather than abandon a problem which, for the time being, engaged her attention. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z And while you're at it, take a moment to remember Menaechmus, the geometer who first described the parabola in the 4th century B.C. In basketball, shooting angle has a big effect on the chances of scoring 2010-03-16T04:00:00Z As a geometer he is classed by Eudemus, the greatest ancient authority, among those who “have enriched the science with original theorems, and given it a really sound arrangement.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Indeed, other geometers are even more explicit on this point. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude These gentlemen received the sounding title of "geometers." Black Forest Village Stories Let no one enter here who is not a geometer. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z We have schools of rhetoricians, geometers, and musicians. Roman Women A great geometer is he; For, on the creek's diaphanous silk, Sphere, cone, and star exquisitely He's drawn in crystal lines of milk. Blooms of the Berry It harmonizes with the concrete visualizing turn of his mind that, to quote Professor Henry Smith, “Clifford was above all and before all a geometer.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Before the geometer had half cleared his plate the worthy hostess put another piece upon it. Black Forest Village Stories The stone is faced with a precision that no skill can excel, its right angles turned with an accuracy that the most careful geometer could not surpass. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Under the same roof were gathered together geometers, astronomers, chemists, mechanicians, engineers. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The Euclidean geometer can take it for granted that the reader understands what a line or plane, a solid or an angle is. The Philosophy of Spinoza Then, submitting this view to Professor Miller of Cambridge, he had the gratification of being assured by that distinguished geometer that it was strictly correct. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications When the afternoon church was over, Crescence could not avoid taking a walk with the geometer; but she managed to keep clear of the street and go along the back fences of the gardens. Black Forest Village Stories The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis, and disdain the results of observation. Nature This, however, is a long way from the facts of real life, and a man might well be a great geometer, and still be a thoroughly bad reasoner in practical questions. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 1: On Popular Culture It was a famous curve, for the Greek geometers had studied it as one of the sections of a cone, but it was not so well known in Kepler's time. Pioneers of Science But geometers are men; and the contagion of patriotic fervour which swept over Germany after the battle of Leipsic did not spare Gauss's promising pupil. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition In spite of the exertions of the Red Tailor and mine host of the Eagle, the geometer transferred his head-quarters to Muehl. Black Forest Village Stories It was moving quickly, in the manner of a geometer caterpillar, the five fingers humped up one moment, flattened out the next; the thumb appeared to give a crab-like motion to the whole. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories The diagrams which they draw, being visible, are the images of thoughts which the geometer has in his mind, and these images he uses in his reasoning. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The time gained by this eminent engineer, as well as geometer, enabled the Carthaginians to send an army to relieve Syracuse. Ancient States and Empires A born geometer, he was naturally sent to Göttingen and placed under the tuition of Gauss. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition God be praised, you are mine again, and I am all yours now: I've just sent the geometer about his business for good and all. Black Forest Village Stories In Mr. Johnson's speech, his "I" resembles the geometer's description of infinity, having "its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 All geometers would be men of acuteness if they had sufficient insight, for they p. 167never reason falsely on the principles recognised by them. Pascal Aristophanes, in the Birds, introduces a geometer who announces his intention to make a square circle. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Seven astronomers and geometers, five naturalists, and a large number of pupils, made up the party, which was thoroughly to explore the whole of the vast territory. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century He was never seen near the tailor's house in the daytime; and when he met Crescence in the evening, and she laughed at him, he swore to make the geometer pay him for every hair. Black Forest Village Stories The rigid methods employed by modern geometers have deposed Euclid from his pinnacle of correctness. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays All fine or acute spirits would be geometers if they could fix their thoughts on the unwonted principles of geometry. Pascal Trans., he was a geometer, and one who rebukes his squarer for quoting Matthew xi. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II As to beauty, indeed, they put the work of the lapidary to shame, while as to accuracy they render concrete the abstractions of the geometer. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The conversation was carried on by the lady of the house and the geometer exclusively. Black Forest Village Stories Thus the geometer leaves to the man of science to decide, as best he may, what axioms are most nearly true in the actual world. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Geometers, who are only geometers, are sure to be right, provided the subject come within their scope, and is capable of explanation by definition and principles. Pascal The language used by the two great geometers illustrates what I have said: a supreme and guiding intelligence—apart from a blind rule called nature of things—was an hypothesis. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II It is true that a geometer, too, works for the public weal; but the process is tardier, and we may well pardon an impatience that sprung of reasoned zeal for the happiness of mankind. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet If that's the way, and you like the geometer, I've nothing more to say: you might have told me that this morning. Black Forest Village Stories The geometer takes any set of axioms that seem interesting, and deduces their consequences. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays People in general are called neither poets nor geometers, although they have all that in them, and are capable of being judges of it. Pascal Ivory was of that note in the scientific world which may be guessed from Laplace's description of him as the first geometer in Britain and one of the first in Europe. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Until the outbreak of the Revolution, the circumstances of Condorcet’s life were as little externally disturbed or specially remarkable as those of any other geometer and thinker of the time. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet Thus the Sunday passed; and, when Crescence returned with the geometer, long after dark, she thanked her stars that the dreaded fracas had not occurred. Black Forest Village Stories One colonel, more redoubtable in battle than in dialectics, who had been shot through from breast to back, gravely informed us that the geometer Euclid was an early English writer! Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 "Our fields are arranged in just such figures, and the geometers of the state study them at school." The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt It reminds us of the old days when real geometers used to think it worth while seriously to demolish pretenders. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Slusius is a true geometer, and uses the ellipse, etc.: but he is sometimes ranked with the trisecters, for which reason I place him here, with this explanation. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I You are cross because I go with the geometer, a'n't you? Black Forest Village Stories He was educated at Merton College, and was one of the best geometers of his time, besides being the author of an important tract against Pelagianism. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See To a man like Monte-Leone nothing was lost, and like a skilful geometer, he knew how to take advantage of the errors of his adversary. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 To see this he must invent additional lines; and the geometer must often draw such to get at the essential properties he may require in a figure. Human Traits and their Social Significance According to this octavo geometer and quarto gentleman, a diameter of 81 gives a circumference of 256. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I I haven't married the geometer yet, but cut him I can't now: my folks would throttle me in my sleep if I was to turn him off. Black Forest Village Stories The language of the Greek geometers is also wonderfully concise, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It may further be observed that up to this period the mere English reader had few, if any means of obtaining access to the elegant remains of the ancient geometers. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It is no more true of the geometer's space and the philosopher's matter than of the physiologist's functional power. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Archimedes, the greatest geometer of antiquity, was consulted by the king in regard to a gold crown suspected of being fraudulently alloyed with silver. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Within, Crescence sat with the geometer, paying but little heed to his blandishments: at last she feigned a headache and went to bed. Black Forest Village Stories Hippocrates of Chios is mentioned by Aristotle as an instance to prove that a man may be a distinguished geometer and, at the same time, a fool in the ordinary affairs of life. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Either the heavenly bodies are great geometers, or the Eternal Geometer has arranged the heavenly bodies. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The beetle as geometer is aware of the form best adapted to the long preservation of preserved foods. Social Life in the Insect World In his reasonings he adopted the precision of a geometer, and was always upon his guard against the influence of imagination. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher Let's take Josey with us and make him do the geometer. Black Forest Village Stories For some time, however, there were capable geometers who kept up the tradition, filling in details, devising alternative solutions of problems, or discovering new curves for use or investigation. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Some geometers who are not philosophers have rejected final causes, but real philosophers admit them; a catechist proclaims God to the children, and Newton demonstrates Him to the learned. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Can not an immoral man be a good physician, a good architect, a good geometer, a good logician, a good metaphysician? Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense He has an insurmountable antipathy towards men, who have in the face of the world gained the honourable titles of historian, geometer, mechanician, astronomer, physician, chemist, or geologist, &c.... Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Under the pretext of having forgotten something, Crescence turned round quickly, and the geometer had nothing to do but to follow her. Black Forest Village Stories The remarkable thing about the earliest geometers is, in fact, that they did not formulate the conception of Space, which seems to us at the present day fundamental. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Every sect, as one knows, is a ground of error; there are no sects of geometers, algebraists, arithmeticians, because all the propositions of geometry, algebra and arithmetic are true. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary I will put the young geometer in the way of a rigid proof. Amusements in Mathematics I was happy and proud when I dined in the Rue de Tournon with the great geometer. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men One evening he was standing, with his comrades, near the Eagle, while the squire sat on a bench before the house, talking to the geometer. Black Forest Village Stories "Probably few men in England," says the Athen�um, "were better versed in the methods of the old geometers, or possessed a more critical appreciation of their relative merits." Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 Still it is not to be inferred, that even these classes did not contain a considerable number of able geometers anterior to the period embraced in his discussion. Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 Shakespeare, in the latter part of his life, was no doubt Master Shakspeare, a title so common as even to be bestowed upon the geometer of Alexandria. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 A great geometer had even proposed to the Bureau of Longitude no longer to pay my allowance to my authorized representative; which appears the more cruel inasmuch as this representative was my father. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men "Now, you needn't make believe you didn't like Florian's little finger better than the whole geometer." Black Forest Village Stories It was moving quickly, in the manner of a geometer caterpillar, the fingers humped up one moment, flattened out the next; the thumb appeared to give a crab-like motion to the whole. Famous Modern Ghost Stories This turned out to be the larva of a geometer two inches long. Darwinism (1889) All geometers, from the dawn of the science, have built their systems upon these definitions: A line is length without breadth, and A surface is length and breadth, without thickness. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 The author of the Mécanique Céleste had vowed to the young geometer an unbounded attachment, completely justified, certainly, by the beautiful researches which science already owed to him. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Crescence was overflowing with happiness, and forgot all about the geometer. Black Forest Village Stories Angles are thrown fantastically by some mad geometer, it would seem. Across China on Foot Such diagrammatic presentments, while of course primarily for the purpose of clear expression and comparison, are also frequently suggestive—by "inspection," as geometers say—of relations not previously noticed. Civics: as Applied Sociology All geometers heretofore have claimed that there are three kinds of quantity in Geometry, different in their natures, and requiring units of different natures to measure them. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Bailly followed the advice of the illustrious geometer, and chose as the subject of his studies, the éloges proposed by several academies, though principally by the French Academy. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men When Crescence returned home, she found the geometer waiting for her, and was forced to receive him with smiles. Black Forest Village Stories An expert geometer sees at a glance whether a demonstration is correct. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics This rank, lost for a moment, was brilliantly regained by the labors of four geometers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The geometers appeared in numbers that were unheard of. Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 I shall be pardoned for having given so detailed an exposition of the principal discoveries for which philosophy, astronomy, and navigation are indebted to our geometers. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Florian perceived that they were looking at him: he saw the squire pass his hand over his upper lip, while the geometer laughed immoderately and said something which sounded like "Samson." Black Forest Village Stories Each pleasure contributes to invigorate and intensify the particular exercise that it is attached to; the geometer who studies his science with pleasure becomes more acute and successful in prosecuting it. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics The profound and long-continued researches of the illustrious geometer completely established the perpetual variability of the planetary ellipses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Pappus of Alexandria, a Greek geometer of the third or fourth century, author of "Mathematical Collections," in eight books, of which the first and second have been lost. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Every evening the great geometer entered my room, and we passed entire hours in conversing on politics and mathematics, which is certainly not quite the same thing. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The geometer entered, and at once the father and mother ran over with the milk of human kindness and loved each other tenderly. Black Forest Village Stories The figures of the geometer, the quantities of the chemist, the measurements of the astronomer, are inexact approximations to their equivalent in the mind. Heart of Man Nothing could be more simple, better connected, or more conclusive than the chain of deductions of the celebrated geometer. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 But here he speaks like a geometer, and not like an artist. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator The examiner, this time, was the illustrious geometer Legendre, of whom, a few years after, I had the honour of becoming the colleague and the friend. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Balt exerted all his eloquence, and almost resorted to "gentle compulsion," to induce the geometer to stay. Black Forest Village Stories Naturally cool and moderate, when it was nothing to do with Mdlle. de Lespinasse, the great affection of his life, the illustrious geometer was content with a little. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 Such is the cycloid, first conceived by Galileo, and a stumbling-block and cause of contention among geometers long after he had left it, together with his system of the universe, undetermined. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A special correspondent who is not precise is a geometer who neglects to run out his calculations to the tenth decimal. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Studying it in all its generalities, he showed himself both an indefatigable computer, a clear-sighted geometer, and an industrious and able observer. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men He took his hat out of his hand and refused to return it, well knowing that if the geometer stayed there would not only be a peaceful dinner, but perhaps also a quart of beer. Black Forest Village Stories When a mechanical arrangement becomes in a certain degree complicated, it baffles the efforts of the geometer, and refuses to submit to even the most approved methods of investigation. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The greatest geometers of the day, Pascal, Roberval, and others, unhesitatingly adopted this method, and employed it in the abstruse researches which engaged their attention. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 This is actually the case, and I hope to be able to convince my readers that it is no fanciful theory, but may be demonstrated as clearly as the problems of the geometer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Six years after, the illustrious geometer gave the same advice, and perhaps held out the same hopes, to the young Marquis de Condorcet. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men "None for me, I thank you," said the geometer. Black Forest Village Stories ASTRONOMY.—The great French geometers, Lagrange and Laplace, made an epoch in astronomical science. Outline of Universal History The sailor and traveller underlie the maker of poems, The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist—all these underlie the maker of poems. Poems By Walt Whitman These "Elements" soon became the universal study of geometers throughout the civilized world; they were translated into the Arabic, and through the Arabians were made known to mediaeval Europe. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements Was it not quite natural that the geometer D'Alembert, having to pronounce his opinion between two honourable learned men, gave the preference to the candidate who seemed to him most imbued with the higher mathematics? Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men These signs of absorbing attention now showed themselves in Florian's own features; for the geometer, with his two colleagues, entered the room. Black Forest Village Stories These "Elements" soon became the universal study of geometers throughout the civilized world. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Here, under Ptolemy Lagus, flourished Euclid, the great geometer, whose work forms the basis of the science of geometry as taught in our schools at the present time. General History for Colleges and High Schools Other famous geometers could also be named, but such men as Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are enough to show that geometry was cultivated to a great extent by the philosophers of antiquity. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements It was the geometer Cousin, member of this academy, who by his incessant solicitations got Madame Bailly's name inserted at the Board of Charity in his arrondissement. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men When your geometer gets an appointment, won't you have to go with him? Black Forest Village Stories Other famous geometers could also be mentioned, but such men as Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are enough to show that geometry was cultivated to a great extent by the philosophers of antiquity. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The history of ethical theory appears to make it clear that the "given" of the moralist is not of the same nature as that of the geometer. A Handbook of Ethical Theory The space of painting is no abstract aspect of things such as the geometer elaborates. The Principles of Aesthetics The French Revolution thus threw the learned geometer, whose discoveries I am about to celebrate, far away from the route which destiny appeared to have traced out for him. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The point of the joke was lost, nevertheless; for the geometer, who put up at the Eagle, was not there. Black Forest Village Stories One of the most interesting is that of the geometer caterpillars, which are very plentiful, and any one can observe them for himself even in a London garden. The Naturalist in Nicaragua In him the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer. Representative Men Of late the speculations about Infinities have run so high, and grown to such strange notions, as have occasioned no small scruples and disputes among the geometers of the present age. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge His father, like that of the illustrious geometer Lambert, was a tailor. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men I've heard all about the fuss he had with the geometer last night. Black Forest Village Stories While our shoulder is at the wheel, wouldn't we do better to put to death all the geometers who pretend that the three angles of a triangle add up to two right angles? Socrates He is more than an expert, or a school-man, or a geometer, or the prophet of a peculiar message. Representative Men A geometer and a Cartesian, he took part in the controversy in its latest stage, when La Motte and Madame Dacier were the principal antagonists. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth "You will certainly not set off for some months to come," said the illustrious geometer; "you could, therefore, take my place temporarily." Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The geometers alone have the right to refuse her that modest garment; in theorems, plainness suffices. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Even to the last hour of his life he remained in ignorance of the existence of any natural cause which ordained that planets should follow those particular curves which geometers know so well. Great Astronomers The sphere inspires the meditations of geometers by the number of its properties. Penguin Island Now is this logarithmic spiral, with its curious properties, merely a conception of the geometers, combining number and extent, at will, so as to imagine a tenebrous abyss wherein to practise their analytical methods afterwards? The Life of the Spider The illustrious geometer gave a complete explanation of the general movement, in virtue of which the terrestrial axis returns to the same stars in a period of about 26,000 years. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men What Eratosthenes really did was to approach both astronomy and geography from two seemingly divergent points of attack—namely, from the stand-point of the geometer and also from that of the poet. A History of Science — Volume 1 The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study. The Republic The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer, The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer. Leaves of Grass The famous spiral of the geometers is the general plan followed by the Mollusc rolling its stone sheath. The Life of the Spider The great geometer has demonstrated that no circumstance depending on universal gravitation can sensibly displace the poles of the earth's axis relatively to the surface of the terrestrial spheroid. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The Egyptian geometer was able to measure irregular pieces of land only approximately. A History of Science — Volume 1 Physical sages there were; but they were geometers and mathematicians, rather than astronomic observers and inquirers. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh In the midst of such a brilliant constellation of geometers, astronomers, physicists, conspicuously shines forth Ptolemy, the author of the great work, "Syntaxis," "a Treatise on the Mathematical Construction of the Heavens." History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science I ought to add that soon afterwards, the ruling authorities whose repugnances were entirely dissipated, frankly and unreservedly applauded the happy choice which you made of the learned geometer to replace Delambre as perpetual secretary. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Nothing could be more simple, better connected, or more demonstrative, than the chain of deductions of the celebrated geometer. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men That the Italic Greeks should have conceived that idea was perhaps not so much because they were astronomers as because they were practical geographers and geometers. A History of Science — Volume 1 This step was soon made, and we were presented with four battalions drawn up in squares in the plain of Quoubbéh, and manœuvring, with admirable precision, conformably to the orders of the illustrious geometer. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men These took the place of the severe geometers of the old Museum. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science To republish the Mécanique Céleste was, on the part of the family of the illustrious geometer, to perform a pious duty. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Observe, for example, with what grandeur of conception the reformation of weights and measures was planned; what geometers, what astronomers, what eminent philosophers presided over every department of this noble undertaking! Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men This rank, which was lost for a moment, was brilliantly regained, an achievement for which we are indebted to four geometers. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men By means of an investigation which demanded the most minute attention, the great geometer discovered in the theory of the moon's movements, two well-defined perturbations depending on the spheroidal figure of the earth. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men And now, at once, recurs the question, How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science The results obtained by that great geometer have been mainly confirmed by the recent researches of Le Verrier on the same subject. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The long route which I have yet to traverse, will hardly allow me to add a few words relative to the administrative services of the illustrious geometer. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The researches of geometers on the theory of gravitation had shown that an effect of this kind must be produced by the disturbing action of the planets on the earth. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Several geometers of the last century were of opinion that the force of attraction is not transmitted instantaneously from one body to another; they even assigned to it a comparatively inconsiderable velocity of propagation. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The administrative duties of the prefect of l'Isère hardly interrupted the labours of the geometer and the man of letters. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men This ingenious geometer had proposed a very simple problem which any person may comprehend. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men These first impressions, added to a high susceptibility, explain how Fourier ended by regarding with a certain degree of displeasure the efforts of those geometers who endeavoured to improve his theory. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men |
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