How To Use geometrician In A Sentence
- The law of reflection was known as early as the time of Euclid, about 320 b.c., and to this geometrician was attributed, although probably erroneously, a "Treatise on Mirrors", in which the principles of catoptrics were correctly set forth. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- A geometrician named Brock transformed his well-verticed cock from soft tetrahedron to isocahedron when it was as hard as a rock. APED: "geometrician Brock"
- They are not so behoveful: he that can tell his money hath arithmetic enough: he is a true geometrician, can measure out a good fortune to himself; a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Where, in our modern nations, shall we find a natural philosopher, a geometrician, a metaphysician, or even a moralist who has spoken well on the subject of poetry? A Philosophical Dictionary
- One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. Les Miserables
- Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which A Philosophical Dictionary
- Every circle is but a dim realization of some perfect circle every geometrician dreams of.
- Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Posidonius, and all the geometricians of Asia, of Egypt, and of Greece, having acknowledged the sphericity of our globe, how did it happen that we, for so long A Philosophical Dictionary
- So the geometrician, from the construction of figures, findeth out many properties thereof; and from the properties, new ways of their construction, by reasoning; to the end to be able to measure land and water; and for infinite other uses. Leviathan
- The geometrician, however, does not so use these, as if he syllogized from these. Works
