 As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.* As in philosophy...  The Scots Magazine - Seite 4461787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."65 From Rittenhouse's achievement Paine inferred the metaphysical truth of which so many late... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 Seiten
..."A Mechanic," was exorbitantly praised for his contributions to astronomy. According to Jefferson, "he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from creation to this day." Jefferson referred to Rittenhouse's famous orrery, an ingenious replica of the... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1995 - 376 Seiten
...designing and constructing the orrery, or model of the solar system, Jefferson concluded, Rittenhouse "has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."51 This is high praise indeed. Rittenhouse's orrery, the object of Jefferson's praise, was certainly... | |
 | Paul Metzner - 1998 - 412 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...any man who has lived from the creation to this day. 6 Jefferson's American Pantheon had different admission standards from ours. For him, Franklin won... | |
 | Laura Rigal - 2001 - 276 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.'9 In this passage, it is the mechanical artist, David Rittenhouse, who is Jefferson's central... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.9 As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might... | |
 | William Howard Adams - 1997 - 368 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."21' Jefferson considered certain portions of the abbe Raynal's account of the United States, "worthless."... | |
 | Louis B. Wright, Henry Steele Commager, Richard Brandon Morris - 2002 - 340 Seiten
...which caused Jef.,p. 171. ., p. 175. ferson to comment that he had approached nearer to the Almighty "than any man who has lived from the creation to this day." 8l Rittenhouse's instruments as well as his theoretical knowledge helped to advance physical sciences... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...who has lived from the creation to this day. As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might show that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached...any man who has lived from the creation to this day. On George Wythe: No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than George Wythe. His virtue... | |
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