Lexicographical Neighbors of Geometrises
Literary usage of Geometrises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metaphysical Magazine by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... discussion of the sentence imputed to Plato, that "God always geometrises."
The explanation is neither so mechanical nor recondite as many may imagine. ..."
2. The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For the Year (1869)
"At length I came to that startling sentence, ' God geometrises.' ' Vain reverie !'
I exclaimed, as I east the volume at my feet. ..."
3. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"that God geometrises " (p. 294). He is unaware apparently of the tradition which
attributes the expression to Plato, though it is not found in Plato's ..."
4. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"Nature geometrises, said Emerson, and it is interesting to note the imagery of
transcendentalism through the ages. It is invariably geometrical. ..."
5. Progress in Religion to the Christian Era by Terrot Reaveley Glover (1922)
"... if it is Jewish at all,14 must be excepted —it presupposes God as a thinking,
planning, provident being; God "geometrises" again, as Plato said. ..."
6. Plato by David George Ritchie (1902)
"... God always geometrises" (6), we may see the link between what looks like an
appeal from science to theology and his earlier thinking, in which the study ..."
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