MDDM Ch. 61

[jbor]

Yes, the term does refer to mathematical calculations here. Thanks for the
correction. 

Dixon's extemporising on Capt. Shelby's "analogy between the Human Body and
the Planet Earth". He's visualising the human body's outer and inner
"surfaces" transformed into a toroid, which for some reason brings computer
animation to my mind.

Dixon's comment bridges between Shelby's analogy and Stig's tale of the hole
at the North Pole, and then into the Hollow Earth stuff.

best



on 8/7/02 2:11 AM, Don Kelly at donkelly at enter.net wrote:

> From the context I think Dixon's talking topology, which may be jumping
> the gun a little, but here's another meaning for "fluxions" :
> 
> http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html
> 
> Sorry if this already came up  - Ethelmer and and DePugh mentioned it
> when they were comparing notes about school. Interesting resonances with
> the Royal Society, also international scientific rivalries.
> 
> 
> 
> jbor wrote:
> 
> 
>> 602. 25 "Fluxions ... Toroid"
>> 
>> fluxion n. less common word for "flux" = flow or discharge; continuous
>> change, instability [16th C. from Latin *fluxió* a flowing]
>> 
>> toroid n. (Geometry) 1. a surface generated by rotating a closed plane curve
>> about a coplanar line that does not intersect the curve 2. the solid
>> enclosed by such a surface
>> 
>> http://www.netbase.org/e~scape/e~mus14.htm
>> 
>> http://www.ys.sk/t/t0006.php
>