Augustus De Morgan Quotes - Page 2

• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• En cuanto a escribir otro libro de geometría [para sustituir a Euclides], la Edad Media habría pensado tan pronto en componer otro Nuevo Testamento.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Libro, Escritura, Ciencia

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• The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Song, Drinking, Astronomy

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