 To be a Greek was to seek to know; to know the primordial substance of matter, to know the meaning of number, to know the world as a rational whole. In no spirit of paradox one may say that Euclid is the most typical Greek: he would fain know to the bottom,...  Mathematics - Side 58av David Eugene Smith - 1923 - 175 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 sider
...AD 1823. [Perhaps also characteristic of the English school of physics.] (Rugby School, England) 89 To be a Greek was to seek to know, to know the primordial...number, to know the world as a rational whole. In TL Heath The Legacy of Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press) p 97 90 To be or not to be, To be is... | |
 | Ernest Barker - 1967 - 390 sider
...Heath, in a paper on Greek Mathematics and Science^ printed at Cambridge in 1921.) They are as follows: 'To be a Greek was to seek to know; to know the primordial...say that Euclid is the most typical Greek: he would fain know to the bottom, and know as a rational system, the laws of the measurement of the earth. Plato,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1933 - 142 sider
...Thompson and Sir TL Heath. Sir Thomas quotes a brilliant writer, whom he does not name, to the effect that "in no spirit of paradox one may say that Euclid is...system, the laws of the measurement of the earth". Such a sentence is worthy of study by a generation which, after centuries of use, has allowed Euclid... | |
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