The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 45
he amiable companion.The source of that perpetual enjoyment, so unaffected, DALEMBERT. [france, and so pleasing, was a soul of the utmost purity, freefrom passions of every kind, satisfied with itself, andevery day more and more delighted by the discovery ofsome unknown truth, which had rewarded… … £$l . oWvw io- ..■ Zondoajitt Us i .■ • - ARCHIMEDES. Archimedes, the greatest geometrician of antiquity,-was born at Syracuse, in Sicily, about 280 years B. C.The discoveries he made in every branch of the mathe-matics are very numerous; but it was in geometry thathis genius principally shone. He…
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