InMathematicks he was greater / ThanTycho Brahe, orErra Pater : / For he, byGeometrick scale, / Could take the size ofPots of Ale ; / Resolve by Signs and Tangents streight, / IfBread orButter wanted weight; / And wisely tell what hour o’th’ day / The Clock doth strike, byAlgebra.
1990, Stamos Metzidakis, “The Utopian Vision of French Criticism”, inSymposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, volume44, number 3,→DOI, page195:
This does not mean that the French, works, composed by rational minds (de l’esprit) are totally devoid of any value or cultural significance. But Madame de Staël obviously prefers what she considers to be the imaginative workings of the German mind to thegeometric and analytical penchants of the French mind.
The men around the table were by no means dissidents, but neither can they turn their countries around on their own. Of course, the vast problems in Africa cannot be solved by African policies alone. Poverty breeds poverty bygeometric progression.
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