 | 1849 - 714 pagine
...Mathematicians than that of EUCLID, by Professor De Morgan, which extends to twenty-one columns. ' The length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers exceptod, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid. To this it may be added,... | |
 | Egidio Forcellini - 1854 - 1240 pagine
...had also a temple at Thebes. (Paus. ut. 17. § 1.) [LS] EUCLEIDES (Е1/кЛ«8чг) of ALKXANDRRIA. The length of this article will not be blamed by any...which the young scholar or the young mathematician can find all the information about this name which its celebrity would make him desire to have. Euclid... | |
 | Greek and Roman biography - 1861 - 1246 pagine
...Euclcia had also a temple at Thebes. (Paus. ix. 17. § 1.) [LS] EUCLEIDES (Eu/tAei'Sijs) of ALEXANDRIA. The length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers exccpted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid. To this it may be added,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1890 - 938 pagine
...valuable of what we have, is the Elements, and when it is borne in mind that, as De Morgan said of him, " the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid," the importance of the scientific work done at Alexandria is not to be easily over-estimated. The Elements... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1896 - 336 pagine
...commanding position in modern education as has Euclid in elementary geometry. . "The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid." * After mentioning Eudoxus, Theaetetus, and other members of the Platonic school, Proclus 2 adds the... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 186 pagine
...resembling it. And it is not that De Morgan takes a low view of the Elements, for he declares elsewhere — "The sacred writers excepted, no Greek has .been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid." * " The thirteen books of Euclid must have been a tremendous advance, probably even greater than that... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 186 pagine
...it. And it is not that De Morgan takes a low view of the Elements, for he declares elsewhere — • "The sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid."* t " The thirteen books of Euclid must have been a tremendous advance, probably even greater than that... | |
 | Joachim von zur Gathen, Jürgen Gerhard - 2003 - 804 pagine
...to afford men one of the clearest exercises of reason that I ever yet met with. Robert Boyle (1671) The length of this article will not be blamed by any...sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. Augustus DC Morgan (c. 1844) 3 The Euclidean Algorithm Integers... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 2007 - 337 pagine
...position in modern education as has Euclid in elementary geometry. " The sacred writings exeepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid." l After mentioning Eudoxus, Theaetetus, and other members of the Platonic school, Proclus 2 adds the... | |
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The length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid. To this it may be added, that there is hardly any book in our language in which... 