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Geometry/Labor = Volume/Mass?**

Geometry/Labor = Volume/Mass?** Geometry/Labor = Volume/Mass?* DARCY GRIMALDO GRIGSBY This is a story about geometry and engineering and also modern hubris. If someone, besides myself, is to be blamed for my title, it is Charles de Freycinet, although to be fair, he is merely an especially useful representative of late-nineteenthcentury France.1 An engineer and graduate of the École Polytechnique, he like so many other engineers of this period was a successful politician during the Third Republic. Freycinet was Prime Minister four times between 1879 and 1892, senator for more than forty-three years, and coauthor of a key project for the national construction of some eighteen thousand kilometers of railway crisscrossing France. He also wrote a book on modern Egypt and a small lovely treatise called De l’Expérience en Géométrie (Of Experience in Geometry).2 I begin by quoting the latter at length: The bodies of Nature, particularly solid bodies, are the origin of the fundamental concepts of Geometry. First we distinguish volume, that is to say the portion of space or the extension occupied by the body. To give it a concrete representation, one can imagine that the body is replaced by a very thin envelope which exactly reproduces the exterior form. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png October MIT Press

Geometry/Labor = Volume/Mass?**

Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo
October , Volume Fall 2003 (106) – Oct 1, 2003
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Geometry/Labor = Volume/Mass?* DARCY GRIMALDO GRIGSBY This is a story about geometry and engineering and also modern hubris. If someone, besides myself, is to be blamed for my title, it is Charles de Freycinet, although to be fair, he is merely an especially useful representative of late-nineteenthcentury France.1 An engineer and graduate of the École Polytechnique, he like so many other engineers of this period was a successful politician during the Third Republic. Freycinet was Prime Minister four times between 1879 and 1892, senator for more than forty-three years, and coauthor of a key project for the national construction of some eighteen thousand kilometers of railway crisscrossing France. He also wrote a book on modern Egypt and a small lovely treatise called De l’Expérience en Géométrie (Of Experience in Geometry).2 I begin by quoting the latter at length: The bodies of Nature, particularly solid bodies, are the origin of the fundamental concepts of Geometry. First we distinguish volume, that is to say the portion of space or the extension occupied by the body. To give it a concrete representation, one can imagine that the body is replaced by a very thin envelope which exactly reproduces the exterior form.

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