28 Apr
2015
28 Apr
'15
5:18 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell famously wrote an accidental poem which I've never seen correctly quoted:
Gack, not even by me!
"Hence no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into [AN] horizontal line which is accurately straight" http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj4g9;view=1up;seq=74 He hastily deleted it from future editions.
of http://books.google.com/books/about/An_Elementary_Treatise_on_Mechanics.html...
--rwg
But even with the "an" correction, Google gets zero hits. Not even the above URL to the original. Bad OCR? --rwg