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单词 sublime geometry
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sublime geometry
sublime geometry n. Mathematics Obsolete the branch of geometry which makes use of calculus.
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1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Lives French, Ital., & German Philosophers i. 30 The small Number of those who aspired to the Sublime Geometry [Fr. à la haute Geometrie], were struck with an unprofitable Admiration, but not enlighten'd by it.
1742 C. MacLaurin Treat. Fluxions I. 42 Principles that are proposed as of the most extensive use, and as the foundation of all the sublime geometry, ought to be clear and unexceptionable.
1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. I. 536/2 Higher or Sublime Geometry, is that which is employed in the consideration of curve lines, conic sections, and the bodies formed of them.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 186/1 The term sublime geometry was technical, meaning the higher parts of geometry, in which the infinitesimal calculus or something equivalent was employed.
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