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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Mathematical Problem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is now--this was erst,<br>Proposition the first--and Problem the first.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>On a given finite Line<br>Which must no way incline;<br>To describe an equi--<br>--lateral Tri--<br>--A, N, G, L, E.<br>Now let A. B.<br>Be the given line<br>Which must no way incline;<br>The great Mathematician<br>Makes this Requisition,<br>That we describe an Equi--<br>--lateral Tri--<br>--angle on it:<br>Aid us, Reason--aid us, Wit!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>From the centre A. at the distance A. B.<br>Describe the circle B. C. D.<br>At the distance B. A. from B. the centre<br>The round A. C. E. to describe boldly venture.<br>(Third Postulate see.)<br>And from the point C.<br>In which the circles make a pother<br>Cutting and slashing one another,<br>Bid the straight lines a journeying go,<br>C. A., C. B. those lines will show.<br>To the points, which by A. B. are reckon'd,<br>And postulate the second<br>For Authority ye know.<br>A. B. C.<br>Triumphant shall be<br>An Equilateral Triangle,<br>Not Peter Pindar carp, not Zoilus can wrangle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Because the point A. is the centre<br>Of the circular B. C. D.<br>And because the point B. is the centre<br>Of the circular A. C. E.<br>A. C. to A. B. and B. C. to B. A.<br>Harmoniously equal for ever must stay;<br>Then C. A. and B. C.<br>Both extend the kind hand<br>To the basis, A. B.<br>Unambitiously join'd in Equality's Band.<br>But to the same powers, when two powers are equal,<br>My mind forbodes the sequel;<br>My mind does some celestial impulse teach,<br>And equalises each to each.<br>Thus C. A. with B. C. strikes the same sure alliance,<br>That C. A. and B. C. had with A. B. before;<br>And in mutual affiance,<br>None attempting to soar<br>Above another,<br>The unanimous three<br>C. A. and B. C. and A. B.<br>All are equal, each to his brother,<br>Preserving the balance of power so true:<br>Ah! the like would the proud Autocratorix do!<br>At taxes impending not Britain would tremble,<br>Nor Prussia struggle her fear to dissemble;<br>Nor the Mah'met-sprung Wight,<br>The great Mussulman<br>Would stain his Divan<br>With Urine the soft-flowing daughter of Fright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>But rein your stallion in, too daring Nine!<br>Should Empires bloat the scientific line?<br>Or with dishevell'd hair all madly do ye run<br>For transport that your task is done?<br>For done it is--the cause is tried!<br>And Proposition, gentle Maid,<br>Who soothly ask'd stern Demonstration's aid,<br>Has prov'd her right, and A. B. C.<br>Of Angles three<br>Is shown to be of equal side;<br>And now our weary steed to rest in fine,<br>'Tis rais'd upon A. B. the straight, the given line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a><div class=q>
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Proposition the first--and Problem the first.

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On a given finite Line
Which must no way incline;
To describe an equi--
--lateral Tri--
--A, N, G, L, E.
Now let A. B.
Be the given line
Which must no way incline;
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