Quote #9

Je voulus faire un jet d'eau dans mon jardin; Euler calcula l'effort des roues pour faire monter l'eau dans un bassin, d'ou elle devait retomber par des canaux, afin de jaillir a Sans-Souci. Mon moulin a ete execute geometriquement, et il n'a pu elever une goutte d'eau a cinquante pas du bassin. Vanite des vanites! vanite de la geometrie!

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