 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 344 pages
...artificers do 'not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pafs that mechanics is fo diftinguifhed from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical ; what is lefs fo, is called' mechanical. But the errors are not jn the art, but in the artificers. He that works... | |
 | Seba Smith - Geometry - 1850 - 212 pages
...mechanics in a two-fold respect : as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration ; and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...geometrical ; what is less so, is called mechanical. But the error is not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 634 pages
...mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...geometrical; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 784 pages
...mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...geometrical ; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...geometrical ; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect... | |
 | Jeremy Gray - Mathematics - 1999 - 320 pages
...mathematicsl? This was precisely what bothered Newton in the Principia. where he wrote:7 Mechanics [physics] is so distinguished from geometry that what is perfectly...geometrical; what is less so. is called mechanical. The difference between mathematics and physics is starkly expressed by the contrasts between what Poincare... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2005 - 384 pages
...as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its...geometrical; what is less so is called mechanical. 12 Newton argues that geometry is the foundation of mechanics. In order for a mathematician to be a... | |
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To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical;... 