 In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does...  Hudibras - עמוד 5מאת Samuel Butler - 1859 - 473 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 דפים
...the com- Quality plete conservative. He hated silly new mechanical ways of doing things. Hudibras, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of...wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. One suspects that Gulliver's Laputan tailor had had hints of his... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1964 - 513 דפים
...he, by Geometrick scale, Could take the size of Pots of Ale; Resolve by Signs and Tangents streight, If Bread or Butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The Clock doth strike, by Algebra. After Newton's work, ridicule changed to unbounded admiration. Poetry... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 דפים
...(Hudibras, The Argument, lines 65-70) In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater; For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots...wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. (Hudibras, The Argument, lines 1 19-26) In A Satire Against Mankind... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 דפים
...Enough 1967 Samuel Butler 1612-1680 245 In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Hudibns 1663, part 1 246 A learned society of late, The... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 דפים
...He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: 120 For he, by geometric scale. Could take the size of...wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - 392 דפים
...Hudibras's intellectual bent amounts to an ieUe fixe that dooms him to impracticality: For he by Geometrick scale Could take the size of Pots of Ale; Resolve...or Butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The Clock does strike, by Algebra, [part 1, canto 1, 121-26] But if the Knights absurdities... | |
 | Lawrence S. Lerner - 1996 - 640 דפים
...simple harmonic. In Mathematicks he was greater Then Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater: For he by Geometrick scale Could take the size of Pots of Ale; Resolve by Sines and Tangents straight, //Bread or Butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The Clock doth strike, by Algebra... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 דפים
...scientist. Opus Maius, pt. 4, ch. 1 (1267). 2 In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. SAMUEL BUTLER, (1612-1680)... | |
 | Clifton Fadiman - 1997 - 326 דפים
...he, by Geometrick scale, Could take the size of Pots of Ale; Resolve by Signs and Tangents streight, If Bread or Butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The Clock doth strike, by Algebra. [FROM Hudibras, FIRST PART, CANTO i] Arithmetic Arithmetic is where... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 506 דפים
...and Addresses (p. 44) Butler, Samuel In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell you what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler Volume... | |
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