Mechanicks

Accordingly I spent most of the day in the bookshop reading the Musick of Pythagoras, the Astronomy of Ptolemy, the Arithmetick of Nichomachus, the Geometry of Euclid, the Divinity of Plato, the Logick of Aristotle, and the Mechanicks of Archimedes, first in French, then in English and finally in Latin.

Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

Sir Isaac Newton had claimed that his cosmic system proved beyond doubt the existence of an intelligent, omniscient and omnipotent creator, who was obviously "very well skilled in Mechanicks and Geometry."

Man vs. God 2009

Accordingly I spent most of the day in the bookshop reading the Musick of Pythagoras, the Astronomy of Ptolemy, the Arithmetick of Nichomachus, the Geometry of Euclid, the Divinity of Plato, the Logick of Aristotle, and the Mechanicks of Archimedes, first in French, then in English and finally in Latin.

Librairie Osbourne Young Geoffrion 2009

It is much more likely that a Conspiracy Theorist should see an evanescent Ghost coming through a Wall, than He should understand simple Mechanicks, or the Strength of a Truss, or how Heat altereth many Things.

"You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...." Ann Althouse 2008

Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad.

Essays 2007

Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivation at home and abroad.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Notwithstanding the late Clamour against me, and although Mr. Ruddock was very popular among all the Tradesmen and Mechanicks in Town, I was chosen by a large Majority.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

Mechanicks left off their Trades, and put their Effects into this Policy, that they might live at their Ease; and now they're all ruined; and of all the immense Sums that were put into this damned Policy, there is not the hundredth Part to be found, and that is in the Hands of those few that cheated the rest; but whether it be sunk again into the Bowels of the

The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

He understood the Mechanicks and Physick; and was a good

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

Philosopher; moreover there are many Wits who are naturally inclined to the Mechanicks; as the one is a Painter, another a Goldsmith; the one a

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. Basilius Valentinus