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Old problems in trigonometry were the pleasing relaxations of his mind, and complications of figures were a delight to him. There was not one of those prosperous clergymen around him, and who scorned him, whom he could not have instructed in Hebrew. It was always a gratification to him to remember that his old friend the dean was weak in his Hebrew.
"'How do you come to know it? I asked in surprise. "'When my old tutor used to give me an exercise in trigonometry it always took the shape of measuring heights. When I was a lad I worked out every tree and building on the estate. "This was an unexpected piece of luck. My data were coming more quickly than I could have reasonably hoped.
Divide the knots by the same decimal, and it gives the statute miles." "I will try to remember that decimal as you have done," replied Louis. "Now, Mr. Scott, don't open Bowditch's Navigator to us, or talk about projection, 'logarithms, 'Gunter, and 'inspection; for I am not capable of understanding them, for my trigonometry has gone to the weeping willows." "Talk to us in English, Mr.
Stephenson here will make you forget all that undesirable knowledge before long lost in a maze of Euclid, and Latin, and Greek, and trigonometry, and things!" "I say!" gasped Norah. "Well, you may," grinned the doctor. "I foresee lively times for you and your tutor in the paths of learning, young lady. First of all, however, you'll have to be under-nurse to our friend the patient, with Mrs.
Among his extravagances was a genealogy of his family traced through his f. to Adam, and through his mother to Eve, he himself being the 153rd in descent. He pub. Trissotetras, a work on trigonometry , an invective against the Presbyterians , a scheme for a universal language, Logopandecteision , and a partial translation of Rabelais , a further portion being pub. in 1693.
As the result of it all, Weston had, perhaps, saved less money than she often spent on one gown. She felt very compassionate toward him, and he was troubled by the softness in her eyes. He felt that if he watched her too closely he might lose his head. "I tried to study a few works on trigonometry and surveying during the winter, but it was a little difficult," he said.
Text-books are not mentioned here; and, though some must have been in view for such subjects as Trigonometry, Fortification, Engineering, and Navigation, yet it is clear, from Milton's language, that he meant a good deal of the miscellaneous instruction to be by lectures and digests of books by the teacher. Nay, there were to be more than lectures.
The height of its spires cannot be taken by trigonometry: they measure absurdly short, but how tall they are to the admiring eye.... I sat outside of my hotel and the sweet groaning thunder of the organ floated out of the church like a summons"; and much more of the same sort, all of which tells us that, once we find ourselves on a plane of intimacy with a great church, we continually receive new impressions and inspirations, and it is in this vein that one who has known this group of simple but fascinating churches on their own ground, so to put it, can but seek to convey the idea that it is good that we have such contrasting types as a relief and an antidote to an appetite which otherwise might become sated.
They develop the mathematical sciences, invent algebra, and improve geometry and trigonometry. They collect and translate the old Greek mathematical and astronomical works, and adopt the inductive method of Aristotle. They establish many colleges, and, with the aid of the Nestorians, organize a public-school system.
Sin i = n sin r escaped him, though he had all the trigonometry of Hipparchus behind him, and it was left for Snell and Descartes to take the simple but crucial step at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The case is interesting for more than one reason.
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