 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 670 pages
...geometry with great assiduity, about 390 years BC The celebrated inscription that he caused to be placed over the door of his school, " Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry," is a proof of the high estimation in which he held the latter science. To this philosopher we owe the... | |
 | Lives - 1823 - 192 pages
...refreshing. Plato gave a large sum of money for a small spot of ground within this inclosure, and placed over the door of his school, " Let no one enter here who does not know geometry." This new school soon became very famous: the young men from every quarter... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...principal object of the instructions he gave his scholars : over the door of his school was written, " Let no one enter here who is ignorant of Geometry."...the cube could not fail of engaging his attention. He invented, for the purpose of finding two mean proportions, an instrument composed of two rules,... | |
 | Euclid - 1826 - 234 pages
...principal object of instruction among his scholars. He had written over the door of his academy, " Let no one enter here who is ignorant of Geometry." The problem before-mentioned, viz. the duplication of the cube, particularly engaged his attention ; and although... | |
 | Euclides - 1826 - 226 pages
...principal object of instruction among his scholars. He had written over the door of his academy, " Let no one enter here who is ignorant of Geometry." The problem before-mentioned, viz. the duplication of the cube, particularly engaged his attention ; and although... | |
 | George Crabb - 1830 - 438 pages
...friend of Plato, whose devotion to the science ol geometry was such that he caused it to be inscribed over the door of his school, * Let no one enter here who is ignorant ol geometry.' To Plato we are indebted for that branch of geometry known by the name of conic sections,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1831 - 426 pages
...friend of Plato, whose devotion to the science of geometry was such that he caused it to be inscribed over the door of his school, ' Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry.' To Plato we are indebted for that branch of geometry known by the name of conic sections, of which... | |
 | George Crabb - 1835 - 378 pages
...friend of Plato, whose devotion to the science of geometry was such that he caused it to be inscribed over the door of his school, ' Let no one enter here who is ignorant of geometry.' To Plato we are indebted for that branch of geometry known by the name of conic sections, of which... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 480 pages
...morality, hence his politics, and at first his decided taste for mathematics. Plato, it is said, wrote on the door of his school : Let no one enter here who is not a geometrician. You conceive, in fact, that the mathematical habit of considering in quantities... | |
 | Victor Cousin - 1856 - 478 pages
...morality, hence his politics, and at first his decided taste for mathematics. Plato, it is said, wrote on the door of his school: Let no one enter here who is not a geometrician. You conceive, in fact, that the mathematical habit of considering in quantities... | |
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... to have led to the discoveries of other geometrical properties, as the conchoid of Nicomedes, the cissoid of Diocles, and the quadratrix of Dinostratus. This latter geometrician was the follower and friend of Plato, whose devotion to the science of... 