 This is useful in fortification ; ' ' you cannot play at billiards without this.' ' You only look through a telescope like a Hottentot until this proposition is read,' with many such powerful strokes of rhetoric to the same purpose. And upon such terms,...  School Science and Mathematics - Page 3321911Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1833 - 414 pages
...not without their force, when directed against experimental geometry as an ultimate course of study, lose their ironical character and become serious earnest,...when applied to the same as a preparatory method. ' Elements of geometry carefully weeded of every proposition tending to demonstrate another ; all lying... | |
 | Education - 1836 - 502 pages
...not without their force, when directed against experimental geometry as an ultimate course of study, lose their ironical character and become serious earnest,...when applied to the same as a preparatory method. * Elements of Euclid, with Dissertations, Sec., by James Williamson, MA, Fellow of Hertford College,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 308 pages
...be used as a text-book in France. Williamson, in his edition of Euclid, 1781, criticises Clairautas follows: "Elements of geometry carefully weeded of...geometry like Clairaut's as a preparatory course. 182 Euclid brought to the mind of D'Alembert the questions: What are the elements of a science? What... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1911 - 1196 pages
...without ceremony. "This is useful in fortification;" "you cannot play at billiards without this." "You look through a telescope like a Hottentot until this...Elements?" D'Alembert gives his answers in two articles, " Elements des sciences," and "Des Elements de geometric" in the Encyclopedic mtthodiqite (about 1784).'... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1911 - 1200 pages
...without ceremony. "This is useful in fortification;" "you cannot play at billiards without this." "You look through a telescope like a Hottentot until this...Elements?" D'Alembert gives his answers in two articles, " Elements des sciences," and "Des elements de geometric" in the Encyclopedic melhodique (about 1784).'... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1911 - 1190 pages
...with his own eyes, that he must learn to draw a perpendicular before he can tell how broad it is ? r About 1836 De Morgan remarks that these arraignments...Elements?" D'Alembert gives his answers in two articles, "Elements des sciences," and "Des 61ements de g6om6trie" in the Encyclopedic methodique (about 1784).'... | |
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