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When no point of a line is at a finite distance, the line itself is at an infinite distance. - Gérard Desargues
" "When no point of a line is at a finite distance, the line itself is at an infinite distance.
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About Gérard Desargues
(21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician, architect and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of . , the , and the Desargues crater are named in his honour.
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Girard Desargues
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Gaspard Desargues
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Gerard Desargues
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Jerar Dezarq
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I freely confess that I never had taste for study or research either in physics or geometry except in so far as they could serve as a means of arriving at some sort of knowledge of the proximate causes... for the good and convenience of life, in maintaining health, in the practice of some art,... having observed that a good part of the arts is based on geometry, among others that cutting of stone in architecture, that of sundials, that of perspective in particular.
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