Crossword-Solution: STEREOMETRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stereometry | n. | The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry. |
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| the measurement of volumes of solid figures | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TERCLOE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with STEREOMETRY (5)
Carus attempted to work out a geometry of the organism, and how Bronn tried in a modest way to found a stereometrical morphology, but had the grace not to push his stereometry _à l'outrance_, recognising very wisely that the greater part of organic form is functionally determined.
There were few to whom he could intrust the cutting up of this fruit, because he knew how seldom a man possesses sufficient stereometry of the eye to split a potato into two equal conic sections or hemispheres.
Kepler as a modern geometer is best known by his _New Stereometry of Wine Casks_ (Lincii, 1615), in which he replaces the circuitous Archimedean method of exhaustion by a direct "royal road" of infinitesimals, treating a vanishing arc as a straight line and regarding a curve as made up of a succession of short chords.
His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry.
Haeckel himself declared, twenty years afterwards (in the second part of the _Monograph on the Radiolaria_), that this stereometry of organic forms had found little favour in biology “especially on account of the difficult and complicated nomenclature.” But he had complete confidence as to the substance of it, even after so great a lapse of time.