 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1844 - 738 páginas
...form never exists or subsists without poles, an axis, foci, a greatest circle, and lesser circles, its diameters ; and as it again assumes a perpetuity...form, namely, in respect of diameters and centres, so it breathes a natural spontaneousness in its motion. There are other still higher forms, as the... | |
 | George Bush - 1847 - 274 páginas
...: this form is at once the parent and the measure of angular forms ; for it is the means of showing the properties of angles and figures, as trigonometry...in the living subject and flows spontaneously into jts gyres, as though it were still hungering, and longing to gr.nd the food : there being nothing that... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 páginas
...and have a spherical surface for a centre , wherefore the spiral is called the perpetual circular. Our science of geometry rises almost to this form,...the stomach and its segments after death, for when ,ts nerves are only touched, it rolls and wreathes as in the living subject, and flows spontaneously... | |
 | 1848 - 914 páginas
...foci, a greatest circle, and lesser circles, its diameters; and as it again assumes a perpetuitywhich is wanting in the circular form, namely, in respect of diameters and centres, so it breathes a natural spontaneousness in its motion. There are other still higher forms, as the... | |
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Our science of geometry rises almost to this form, but dare not enter it, or peruse its spires ; for at the first glance it strikes us as inextricable, and seems to sport with our ideas. This form never exists or subsists without poles, an axis, foci,... 