 Those whom we call ancients were really novices in all things, and actually belonged to the childhood of man; and as we have added to their knowledge the experience of the centuries which followed them, it is in ourselves that may be found this antiquity...  Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles - Page xide Yves Hellegouarch - 2001 - 400 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | John Owen - 1893 - 452 pages
...and compose properly speaking the infancy of the race,8 and as we have added to their requirements the experience of the centuries which followed them, it is in ourselves that the antiquity we reverence in others is to be found. This attribute of progressiveness marks the distinction... | |
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