I tried googling on the quote below, and the treatise on mechanics was the top Google hit, which was on the exact page of the quote when I clicked on it (with or without the "[AN]"). --Dan
On Apr 28, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun