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Page 23
... mechanics and to treat the latter subject methodically . He also found a very ingeni- ous mechanical solution to the problem of the duplication of His solution involves clear notions on the genera- tion of cones and cylinders . This ...
... mechanics and to treat the latter subject methodically . He also found a very ingeni- ous mechanical solution to the problem of the duplication of His solution involves clear notions on the genera- tion of cones and cylinders . This ...
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... Mechanics was totally neglected by the Platonic school . The First Alexandrian School . In the previous pages we have seen the birth of geometry in Egypt , its transference to the Ionian Islands , thence to Lower Italy and to Athens ...
... Mechanics was totally neglected by the Platonic school . The First Alexandrian School . In the previous pages we have seen the birth of geometry in Egypt , its transference to the Ionian Islands , thence to Lower Italy and to Athens ...
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... mechanics . Archimedes is the author of the first sound knowledge on this subject . Archytas , Aristotle , and others attempted to form the known mechanical truths into a science , but failed . Aris- totle knew the property of the lever ...
... mechanics . Archimedes is the author of the first sound knowledge on this subject . Archytas , Aristotle , and others attempted to form the known mechanical truths into a science , but failed . Aris- totle knew the property of the lever ...
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... mechanics began to be studied . The foundations were laid by Fermat and Pascal for the theory of numbers and the theory of probability . We shall first consider the improvements made in the art of calculating . The nations of antiquity ...
... mechanics began to be studied . The foundations were laid by Fermat and Pascal for the theory of numbers and the theory of probability . We shall first consider the improvements made in the art of calculating . The nations of antiquity ...
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... mechanics after Galileo was Descartes . DESCARTES TO NEWTON . Among the earliest thinkers of the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries , who employed their mental powers toward the destruction of old ideas and the up - building of new ...
... mechanics after Galileo was Descartes . DESCARTES TO NEWTON . Among the earliest thinkers of the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries , who employed their mental powers toward the destruction of old ideas and the up - building of new ...
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