MDDM Ch.72 A Slouch Hat..."Well met"
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Mon Sep 2 03:21:19 CDT 2002
[704.32]
They are approach'd by a Gentleman
not quite familiar to them. A Slouch Hat
obscures much of his Face. "Well met,"
he pronounces, yet nothing further.
and, [705.8]
"There is a Falmouth invisible, as the center
of a circle is invisible, yet with Compasses
and Straight-Edge may be found."
Pretty sure this is a visitation by the jesuit and
mathematician Gregorius Saint Vincent,1584-1667, See:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Saint-Vincent.html
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/thomas_awl/chapter1/medial
ib/custom3/bios/saintvincent.htm
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