 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1798 - 660 페이지
...contrived the means of conftrudling fuch tables, mull have been a man of profound thought, and of extenfive knowledge. However ancient, therefore, any book may be, in which we meet with a fyftem of trigonometry, we may be allured, that it was not written in the infancy of fcience. 1 2.... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 516 페이지
...the sides and angles of all possible triangles, and contrived the means of constructing such tables, must have been a man of profound thought, and of extensive...assured, that it was not written in the infancy of science. 12. As we cannot, therefore, suppose the art of trigonometrical calculation to have been introduced... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1841 - 652 페이지
...which is referred to by Professor Wallace, with the following important observation of his own : — " However ancient, therefore, any book may be in which...meet with a system of trigonometry, we may be assured it was not written in the infancy of science. We may therefore conclude that geometry must have been... | |
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... must have been a man of profound thought, and of extensive knowledge. However ancient, therefore, any book may be, in which we meet with a system of trigonometry, we may be assured that it was not written in the infancy of the science. 