Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge,... Plutarch's Lives - Page 239by Plutarch - 1804Full view - About this book
| 1824 - 706 pages
...he says, — "Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet... | |
| Plutarch - 1831 - 380 pages
...of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowlege, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowlege, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing : for he considered all... | |
| Plutarch - 1834 - 496 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that thou¿h in the invention of these machines, he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine, rather than human knowlcd¿e, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave • any account of them in writing; for he considered... | |
| 1846 - 500 pages
...'• He had such a depth of understanding," says his biographer, " such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he acquired the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge,... | |
| 1846 - 506 pages
...lie had such a depth of understanding," says his biographer, " such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he acquired the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1854 - 56 pages
...he says, — "Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet... | |
| Plutarch - 1860 - 718 pages
...copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, iii.it, though in the invention of these machines he gained lhu reputation of a man endowed with divine, rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to mechanics^ and... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 pages
...of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed...divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave behind him any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to Mechanics,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 pages
...he says, — "Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 pages
...of mathematical knowledge, that though in the invention of these machines he gained the repxitation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave behind him any account of them in writing. For he considered all attention to Mechanics,... | |
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