 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 310 pages
...that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical ; what is lefs fo, is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with lefs accuracy is an imperfect mechanic ; and if any could work with perfect ac-. curacy, he would be... | |
 | Seba Smith - Geometry - 1850 - 214 pages
...perfectly accurate is called 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 mechanic ; and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all ; for the description... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 784 pages
...geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical ; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art but in the artificers....with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic : and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all; for the description... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...geometry, that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical ; what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers....with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic: and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all; for the description... | |
 | Z. Bechler - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 264 pages
...and what is less so is called mechanical. But the errors are not in the art, but in the artificer. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic and if any could work with perfect accuracy he would be the most perfect mechanic of them all. [6] p. xvii.... | |
 | George Gamow - Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts [engineering] belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as...with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic; and if any could work with perfect accuracy he would be the most perfect mechanic of all. . . . I consider... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...the start, Newton makes the rather remarkable claim that geometry is but part of universal mechanics: To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic; and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all, for the description... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 pages
...mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong,...with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic; and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all, for the description... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...Association. In his attack, he explicitly aligned himself with Newton's preface to the Principia - 'the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers....with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic' - and with John Robison's emphasis upon the importance of applying scientific principles to useful arts such... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...Association. In his attack, he explicitly aligned himself with Newton's preface to the Principia - 'the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers....with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic' - and with John Robison's emphasis upon the importance of applying scientific principles to useful arts such... | |
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However, the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic; and if any could work with perfect accuracy, he would be the most perfect mechanic of all, for the description of right lines and... 
