A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... quadrature of the circle is not my doing it is the natural share of this subject in the actual run of events . [ I keep to my plan of inserting only such books as I possessed in 1863 , except by casual notice in aid of my remarks . I ...
... quadrature of the circle is not my doing it is the natural share of this subject in the actual run of events . [ I keep to my plan of inserting only such books as I possessed in 1863 , except by casual notice in aid of my remarks . I ...
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... quadrature , in an early number of the Penny Magazine . He had , I suppose , school recollections of geometry . He put pencil to paper , drew a circle , and constructed what seemed likely to answer , and , indeed , was— as he said ...
... quadrature , in an early number of the Penny Magazine . He had , I suppose , school recollections of geometry . He put pencil to paper , drew a circle , and constructed what seemed likely to answer , and , indeed , was— as he said ...
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... quadrature , and a cutting from a newspaper , announcing that a reward was ready for the discovery in England . On this evidence he came over . After satisfying him that nothing had ever been offered here , I discussed his quadrature ...
... quadrature , and a cutting from a newspaper , announcing that a reward was ready for the discovery in England . On this evidence he came over . After satisfying him that nothing had ever been offered here , I discussed his quadrature ...
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... quadrature consisted . My impugner quite forgets that this man's ' thoughtfulness ' chiefly consisted in his demanding a hundred thousand pounds from the Lord Chancellor for his dis- covery ; and I may add , that his greatest stretch of ...
... quadrature consisted . My impugner quite forgets that this man's ' thoughtfulness ' chiefly consisted in his demanding a hundred thousand pounds from the Lord Chancellor for his dis- covery ; and I may add , that his greatest stretch of ...
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... quadrature has been found , but appears to assume that it can be done . Boethius , in his comment on the passage ... quadrature question may look at the English Cyclopædia , art . ' Quadrature of the Circle . ' EARLY CIRCLE SQUARERS . 31 ...
... quadrature has been found , but appears to assume that it can be done . Boethius , in his comment on the passage ... quadrature question may look at the English Cyclopædia , art . ' Quadrature of the Circle . ' EARLY CIRCLE SQUARERS . 31 ...
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