 Rittenhouse second to no astronomer living; that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Seite 1151787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 Seiten
...imitation of the Deity. With reference to Rittenhouse's Orrery, Jefferson declared: "As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 Seiten
...own without credit. The astronomer David Rittenhouse, of whom Jefferson had written, "as an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has produced," had improved the Franklin stove by simplifying it. In the 1790s, it replaced the Franklin... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1995 - 376 Seiten
...to his clocks, that Jefferson described him in the Notes as "an artist" (that is, an artisan), who "has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced." In designing and constructing the orrery, or model of the solar system, Jefferson concluded, Rittenhouse... | |
 | Paul Metzner - 1998 - 412 Seiten
...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Laura Rigal - 2001 - 276 Seiten
...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 374 Seiten
...enthusiasm in their originals by those who can read the originals, and in translations by those who cannot. mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 Seiten
...astronomer living: that in genius lie must be the first because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 Seiten
...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...astronomer living; that in genius he must be the first, because he is self taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius...as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the... | |
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