geometrician

• “A characteristic note of his scientific speculations is his fondness for considering social phenomena from a mathematical point of view, so that he was called the geometrician of economy.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “Be this as it may, this character in the comedy is called the "geometrician," and does his best to make himself unbearable to those who are toiling with pickaxe and shovel.”

  La mare au diable. English

• “What they were looking at was a dazzling-and, to Bowman, eye-wrenching - exhibition of shapes and colors, as if a mad geometrician was displaying his wares.”

  Fictionaut: Tin

• “A geometrician named Brock transformed his well-verticed cock from soft tetrahedron to isocahedron when it was as hard as a rock.”

  APED: "geometrician Brock"

• “One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre.”

  Les Miserables

• “N. [who] is a greater geometrician than I … [and whom] I esteem for his enlightenment of mind, virtue, health and strength Bass, 1960, p.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bass Handbook of Leadership

• “So the geometrician, from the construction of figures, findeth out many properties thereof; and from the properties, new ways of their construction, by reasoning; to the end to be able to measure land and water; and for infinite other uses.”

  Leviathan

• “Immediately after having applied such shameful language to a man respectable compared with himself, he considers him as an irrefragable witness, because Boindin — whose unhappy temper was well known — left an ill-written and exceedingly ill-advised memorial, in which he accuses La Motte — one of the worthiest men in the world, a geometrician, and an ironmonger — with having written the infamous verses for which”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Where, in our modern nations, shall we find a natural philosopher, a geometrician, a metaphysician, or even a moralist who has spoken well on the subject of poetry?”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• ““Zeno,” against the divisible extent of matter and the contiguity of bodies he ventures to say what would not be tolerated in any six-months geometrician.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

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