...' of Euclid : such is his own simple confession.1 Aubrey is equally naive, and more particular : 2 "He was forty years old before he looked on geometry,...accidentally : being in a gentleman's library in , Euclid's ' Elements ' lay open, and it was the 47th Prop. Lib. I. So he reads the proposition. 'By GO--&-,'...

...the years 1628 and 1637. First came the discovery of the value of geometrical demonstration in 1639., the story of which, as told by Aubrey, is too characteristic...forty years old before he looked on geometry, which happpened accidentally; being in a gentleman's library in , Kulid's Elements lay open, and it was the...

...regard to Hobbes, compare Aubrey's story, quoted by Professor G. Groom Robertson Hobbes, p. 31 : " He was forty years old before he looked on geometry,...happened accidentally : being in a gentleman's library in , Euchd's Elements lay open, and it was the 47th Prop , Lib. I. So he reads the proposition. 'ByG —...

...With regard to Hobbes, compare Aubrey's story, quoted by Professor G. Croom Robertson, Hobbes, p. 31 : "He was forty years old before he looked on geometry, which happened accidenphysics assert themselves throughout this, and still more in the following century, even where...

...till he was near middle age. The story is best told in Aubrey's own words : — " He was forty yeares old before he looked on geometry, which happened accidentally ; being in a gentleman's library in [name left blank] Euclid's 'Elements' lay open, and it was the 47 Prop. Lib. I. So he reads the proposition....

...about Ben: Jonson, Mr. Ayton, etc. (His mathematical studies.) ** He was (vide his life) 40 yeares f old before he looked on geometry ; which happened...Being in a gentleman's library in . . . , Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El.« libri I. He read the proposition. t He would now <Ryf G—...

...about Ben: Jonson, Mr. Ayton, etc. (His mathematical studies.) ** He was (vide his life) 40 yeares f old before he looked on geometry ; which happened...Being in a gentleman's library in . . . , Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El.8 libri I. He read the proposition. t He would now ' By f G—...

...story, which throws light both on his early education and on the controversies of his later years. He was forty years old before he looked on geometry,...accidentally ; being in a gentleman's library in ... Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47 prop. lib. I. So he reads the proposition, ' By G— ,' says he,...

...interesting thing ! 1 Go on, there's a good chap." " All in good time, my boy ; and good 1 " He [Hobbes] was forty years old before he looked on Geometry,...accidentally ; being in a gentleman's library in , Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47th Prop. Lib. I. So he reads the proposition. ' By G ,' says he,...

...country. You go and earn some money, and then we'll begin your education. In twelve i 1 "He [Hobbes] was forty years old before he looked on Geometry,...accidentally; being in a gentleman's library in , Euclid's Elements lay open, and it was the 47th Prob. Lib. I. So he reads the proposition. ' By G ,' says he,...