The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect... New Elements of Geometry - Page 61by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
| Isaac Newton - 1729 - 444 pages
...Mechanics in a twofold refpett ; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonftration, and praftical. To practical Mechanics all the manual arts belong...artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to fafs that Mechanics is fo diftinguifhed from Geometry, that what is ferfeftly A accurate is called... | |
| Richard Lovett - 1766 - 610 pages
...Philofophical, but Mathematical * ; fuch, to * Viz. accurate Mechanics. For thus reafoni that great Author : ' To practical Mechanics all the manual Arts • belong,...do not work with perfect accuracy, • it comes to pafs that Mechanics is fo diftinguifh'd ' from Geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is LI ' wit,... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1803 - 310 pages
...confidered mechanics in a twofold refpe&; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonftration ; and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual...artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pafs that mechanics is lb diftinguifhed from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical... | |
| William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 788 pages
...laws of mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect;...as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it conies to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is... | |
| George Gamow - 1988 - 372 pages
...mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics as far as it relates to [natural] philosophy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect;...practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts [engineering] belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect... | |
| John Desmond Bernal - 1997 - 326 pages
...philosophy. 212 The Principia in its full title is 'the mathematical principles of natural philosophy'. The Ancients considered mechanics in a two-fold respect;...mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics got its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics... | |
| Richard P. McKeon - 1998 - 536 pages
...increasing accuracy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proreeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from wliic h mechanics took its name. Hut as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 384 pages
...mechanics is that part of geometry which is less "perfectly accurate" by furnishing the following argument: The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect:...demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect... | |
| Allison Muri - 2007 - 321 pages
...manual mechanics from the mathematical principles of 'accurate Mechanics.' Citing Newton, he explains: '"To practical Mechanics all the manual Arts belong,...perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that Mechanics is so distinguish 'd from Geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is call'd Geometrical and what is less... | |
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