 He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri i. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd he (he would now and then sweare an emphaticall...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 921887Full view - About this book
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pages
...iv, pp. 436-7; vol. vn, p. 117. a. EP early education and on the controversies of his later years. "He was forty years old before he looked on geometry,...accidentally; being in a gentleman's library in ... Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47 prop. lib. i. So he reads the proposition, 'By G — ,' says he,... | |
 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - 232 pages
...society that in middle life he made the discovery of the new mathematics. Aubrey says, " He was 40 yeares old before he looked on geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library . . . Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I. He read the proposition. ' By G —... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...neuern Phil., Jubiliumsausg., x, p. 3 5 5 . early education and on the controversies of his later years. "He was forty years old before he looked on geometry,...accidentally; being in a gentleman's library in Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47 prop. lib. i. So he reads the proposition, 'By G — ,' says he,... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University - 1980 - 502 pages
...Hobbes is the subject of the following well-known story, told by his friend, John Aubrey: He was 40 years old before he looked on Geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 E. Libri I. He read the Proposition. By G — , says he,... | |
 | John Aubrey - 1982 - 340 pages
...Malmesbury and in the neighbourhood a week or better; 'twas the last time that ever he was in Wiltshire. He was forty years old before he looked on geometry; which happened * This, I believe, was after his first lord's death. f I had then a fine little horse and commonly... | |
 | Daniel Pedoe - 1983 - 338 pages
...extract is from the delightful Aubrey's Brief Lives, edited by Oliver Lawson Dick. He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri 1.* He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd... | |
 | Douglas M. Campbell, John C. Higgins - 1984 - 292 pages
...is that ascribed to Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) by John Aubrey in his "Brief Lives": He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Aubrey and the Realm of Learning 1975 (London: Duckworth) 137 [Of Thomas Hobbes, in 1629] He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the propostition.... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - 1992 - 266 pages
...mathematics. In his Brief Lives John Aubrey relates the following amusing story about Thomas Hobbes: He was forty years old before he looked on Geometry;...happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I [In any right-angled triangle, the square... | |
 | Virginia Held - 1993 - 310 pages
...edition of the Leviathan (New York: Dutton, 1 947), the one I read as a student, quotes Aubrey thus: "He was forty years old before he looked on geometry...happened accidentally; being in a gentleman's library Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47th Proposition, Lib. I. So he reads the proposition. 'By... | |
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