circle-squarer

Mr. Dodgson's method involved a slight knowledge of trigonometry, and he had reason to suspect that Mr. B-- was entirely ignorant of that subject, he thought it worth while to put him to the test by asking him a few questions upon it, but the circle-squarer, with commendable prudence, declined to discuss anything not Euclidean.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

This circle-squarer selected 3.125 as the value for "_pi_," and Mr. Hagger, who was fired with Mr. Dodgson's ambition to convince his correspondent of his error, failed as signally as Mr. Dodgson did.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

"Lucas," the circle-squarer, who explains how, when he was in a room with a lady and her two daughters, he perceived that "this was all that was necessary for him to attain the cubation of two pyramids," is very choice.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

[46] This Locke must not be confounded with Richard Lock, the circle-squarer and general paradoxist, who flourished a century earlier.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

'I thought it very strange,' wrote a circle-squarer once to De Morgan

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

Simply because the author, so admirably when writing about what he knew, did not know what he did not know, and blundered like a circle-squarer.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

And I pronounce and ordain, by right accruing from the trouble I have taken in this subject, that he, St. Vitus, who leads his votaries a never-ending and unmeaning dance, shall henceforth be held and taken to be the patron saint of the circle-squarer.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Mr. James Smith will, I have no doubt, be the most uneclipsed circle-squarer of our day.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

He says his assertions "arise naturally and necessarily out of the arguments of a circle-squarer:" he might just as well lay down that all the pigs went to market because it is recorded that

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

It is, we can assure E. M., a good thing that the nature of the circle-squarer should be so completely exposed as in this volume.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

I hope my handwriting, etc. do not give the impression I am just a crank or circle-squarer.

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