A Disinterested Inquirer
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Physiology, Mathematics, Measurement |
Discusses a report of a 'German savant' who calculated the number of hairs on the heads of four people. Notes that 'unless all the four heads were of the same size, it would be impossible to draw any conclusion, from the relative numbers of the hairs of each'. | |
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