geometrical

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I can only fumble through the mist of what, if anything, is encoded in the shapes and shades of geometricians like Victoria Haven — but that doesn’t mean I don’t love them.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are born artisans as we are born geometricians, and indeed we are geometricians only because we are artisans.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times, and of all places—we are perpetually moralists; but we are geometricians only by chance.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William

This ballistic problem occupied, during ten or twelve years, the attention of the geometricians Laplace, Biot, Brandes, and Poisson.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von