 In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does...  Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations - Strana 185autor/autoři: C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 484 str.Omezený náhled - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Samuel Butler - 1774 - 254 str.
...pebble-ftones When he harangu'd, but known his phra(e, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematies he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric feale Could take the fize of pots of ale ; Refolve by fines and tangents, flraight, If bread or butter... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 str.
...ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe13 or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Conld take the size of pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread or bntter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what honr o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 str.
...phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahc or Erra Pater 4; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve, by sines and tangents, strait, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell, what hour o'th' day The clock docs strike,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 str.
...would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : 120 For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, If bread and butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra.... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 str.
...wit of the following passage is completely transfused, perhaps even heightened in the translation : For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots...If bread or butter wanted weight : And wisely tell what hour o'th' day The clock doth strike, by algebra. En geometre raffine Un pot de bierre il cut... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 str.
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater ; • For he, by geometric scale, Could...If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 str.
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe-j- or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could...If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock does strike, by Algebra. Beside he was a shrewd philosopher, And had... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 str.
...Taylor the Water Poet makes mention, in the preface to his Cast over the Heater, WorKi, p. 156. and in For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of...If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 125 The clock does strike, by algebra. Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - 454 str.
...Hudibras, that " In Mathematics he was greater " Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; . Let. 2 D " For be, by geometric scale, •. , ««• Could take the...or butter wanted weight, «• " And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day, " The clock does strike, by Algebra." Now, though I mean not to affirm, that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 str.
...known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahef or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take...pots of ale; Resolve by sines and tangents, straight, It' bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.... | |
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