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Nicodemus Frischlin

(22 Sep 1547 - 29 Nov 1590)

German poet and satirist.

Science Quotes by Nicodemus Frischlin (1)

The science of figures is most glorious and beautiful. But how inaptly it has received the name of geometry!

— Nicodemus Frischlin

Dialog 1. In George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane (1982), 130.

See also: | Geometry (38) | Nomenclature (54)

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