 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 482 pages
...tells the thoughts of God. Why did Archimedes invent the astonishing machines which secured to him " the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge ? " This is the answer : that he might have in them systems that would all the time declare his great... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1881 - 782 pages
...sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machine* he- gained the reputation of a man endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave nny account of the m in writing. For he considered ill attention to mechanics,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 470 pages
...to Marcellus, and he refused to go until he had finished his problem. "Archimedes," says Plutarch, "had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity...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,... | |
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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,... 
