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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