How To Use Geometrician In A Sentence
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre.
Les Miserables
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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
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Every circle is but a dim realization of some perfect circle every geometrician dreams of.
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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
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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
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The geometrician, however, does not so use these, as if he syllogized from these.
Works
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What they were looking at was a dazzling-and, to Bowman, eye-wrenching - exhibition of shapes and colors, as if a mad geometrician was displaying his wares.
Tin
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A characteristic note of his scientific speculations is his fondness for considering social phenomena from a mathematical point of view, so that he was called the geometrician of economy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Be this as it may, this character in the comedy is called the "geometrician," and does his best to make himself unbearable to those who are toiling with pickaxe and shovel.
La mare au diable. English
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N. [who] is a greater geometrician than I … [and whom] I esteem for his enlightenment of mind, virtue, health and strength Bass, 1960, p.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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It is allowed, say the geometricians, that no mountain in height or sea in depth exceeds ten furlongs, and yet it seems probable that Xenagoras did not take his admeasurement carelessly, but according to the rules of art, and with instruments for the purpose.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
