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John Aubrey: "Tentang Thomas Hobbes: Dia berusia 40 tahun sebelum dia...

"Tentang Thomas Hobbes: Dia berusia 40 tahun sebelum dia melihat geometri; yang terjadi secara tidak sengaja. Berada di perpustakaan pria, Elemen Euclid terbuka, dan "twas the 47 El. Libri I" [Teorema Pythagoras]. Dia membaca proposisi "Demi Tuhan", katakanlah dia, "ini tidak mungkin:" Jadi dia membaca demonstrasi itu, yang merujuknya kembali ke proposisi seperti itu; proposisi mana yang dia baca. Itu merujuknya kembali ke yang lain, yang juga dia baca. Et sic deinceps, yang akhirnya dia secara meyakinkan diyakinkan akan kebenaran itu. Ini membuatnya jatuh cinta pada geometri."

--- John Aubrey

Versi Bahasa Inggris

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.