Citations:chiliaëdron

English citations of chiliaëdron

• 1689–1700, John Locke, An Eſſay Concerning Humane Underſtanding. In Four Books. (fourth edition, 1700), London: Printed for Awnſham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noſter-Row; and Samuel Manſhip, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal-Exchange., book II, chapter xxix: “Of Clear and Obſcure, Diſtinct and Confuſed Ideas.”, § 13: ‘Complex Ideas may be diſtinct in one part, and confuſed in another.’, page 204:

  Our complex Ideas being made up of Collections, and ſo variety of ſimple ones, may accordingly be very clear and diſtinct in one part, and very obſcure and confuſed in another. In a Man who ſpeaks of a Chiliaëdron, or a Body of a thouſand ſides, the Idea of the Figure may be very confuſed, though that of the Number be very diſtinct; ſo that he being able to diſcourſe, and demonſtrate concerning that part of his complex Idea, which depends upon the Number of a Thouſand, he is apt to think, he has a diſtinct Idea of a Chiliaëdron; though it be plain, he has no preciſe Idea of its Figure, ſo as to diſtinguiſh it, by that, from one that has but 999 ſides: The not obſerving whereof, cauſes no ſmall Error in Men’s Thoughts, and Confuſion in their Diſcourſes.

• ibidem, § 14: ‘This if not heeded, cauſes Confuſion in our Arguings.’, page 205:

  He that thinks he has a diſtinct Idea of the Figure of a Chiliaëdron, let him for Trial’s-ſake take another parcel of the ſame uniform Matter, viz. Gold, or Wax, of an equal Bulk, and make it into a Figure of 999 ſides.

• 1889–1901, William Dwight Whitney (editor), The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal Reference in All Departments of Knowledge with a New Atlas of the World; in Ten Volumes, New York: The Century Co., volume II (Celticize–drool), page 958/3, “chiliaëdron, n.”:

  chiliaëdron, chiliahedron (kil″i-a̤-ēʹdro̤n, -hēʹdro̤n), n.   [A more correct form would be *chiliedron; ⟨ Gr. χίλιοι, a thousand, + ἕδρα, a seat, base, ⟨ ἕζ-εσθαι = E. sit.]   In geom., a solid having a thousand sides.   [Rare.]

• ibidem, “chiliahedron, n.”:

  chiliahedron, n.   See chiliaëdron.

• 2008, Paul C. Pasles, Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey, Princeton University Press, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), chapter 2: “A Brief History of Magic”, page 58, endnote 45:

  Locke contrasts a 999-sided figure with one of a thousand sides. He calls the latter a Chiliaëdron. (A chiliad refers to a set of one thousand items. For example, Cotton Mather refers to millenniarian belief as the “doctrine of the chiliad.”)