 | 1824 - 706 sidor
...character of Archimedes * seems to think that Plutarch " confounded the * Professor Donkin of Oxford. application of geometry to mechanics with the solution of geometrical problems by mechanical means," and that he is mistaken in representing Archimedes as despising all mechanical contrivances aud practical... | |
 | William Smith - 1853 - 1136 sidor
...He was popularly best known as the inventor of several ingenious machines ; but Plutarch (Marcell. c. 14), who, it should be observed, confounds the...scientific spirit, and with a success which placed him very far in advance of the age in which he lived. His theory of the lever was the foundation of static«... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 610 sidor
...VO/Í^ÍTIIS). He was popularly best known as the inventor of several ingenious machines ; but Plutarch,' who, it should be observed, confounds the application...scientific spirit, and with a success which placed him very far in advance of the age in which he lived. His theory of the lever was the foundation of statics... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 608 sidor
...Va/ifilrris). He was popularly best known as the inventor of several ingenious machines ; but Plutarch," who, it should be observed, confounds the application...scientific spirit, and with a success which placed him very far in advance of the age in which he lived. His theory of the lever was the foundation of statics... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1854 - 56 sidor
...character of Archimedes * seems to think that Plutarch " confounded the * Professor Donkin of Oxford. application of geometry to mechanics with the solution of geometrical problems by mechanical means," and that he is mistaken in representing Archimedes as despising all mechanical contrivances and practical... | |
 | William Smith - 1867 - 1113 sidor
...He was popularly best known as the inventor of several ingenious machines ; but Plutarch (Marceli. c. 14), who, it should be observed, confounds the...scientific spirit, and with a success which placed him very far in advance of the age in which he lived. His theory of the lever was the foundation of statics... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 sidor
...government. A modern commentator on the character of Archimedes* seems to think that Plutarch " confounded the application of geometry to mechanics with the...solution of geometrical problems by mechanical means," and that he is mistaken in representing Archimedes as despising all mechanical contrivances and practical... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 214 sidor
...government. A modern commentator on the character of Archimedes* seems to think that Plutarch " confounded the application of geometry to mechanics with the...solution of geometrical problems by mechanical means," and that he is mistaken in representing Archimedes as despising all mechanical contrivances and practical... | |
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Plutarch (Marceli. c. 14), who, it should be observed, confounds the application of geometry to mechanics with the solution of geometrical problems by mechanical means, represents him as despising these contrivances, and only condescending to withdraw... 