MDDM Ch.72 A Slouch Hat..."Well met"

[Otto]

Aren't we in the 18th Century?

Otto

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Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: MDDM Ch.72 A Slouch Hat..."Well met"


>
> [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/medi
al
>
> ib/custom3/bios/saintvincent.htm

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