Stevinus is a 8 letter English word.
You can make 213 anagrams from letters in Stevinus (einsstuv).
If we were to reproduce Stevinus's demonstration to-day, we should have to change it slightly.
But all this does not affect in the least the historical value of Stevinus's thoughts.
The Academician says Stevinus was a man who was not without merit for the time at which he lived: Sir!
It will be observed that the studies of Galileo and Stevinus were chiefly concerned with the force of gravitation.
I cannot conceive how it is possible, quoth my uncle Toby, for such a thing as a sermon to have got into my Stevinus.
In hydrostatics, Stevinus had extended and applied the discovery of Archimedes.
How came a man who had never heard of Stevinus to be a member of the Brussels Academy?
The study of oblique forces was made by Stevinus with the aid of inclined planes.
What business Stevinus had in this affair,—is the greatest problem of all:——It shall be solved,—but not in the next chapter.
This proposition was rediscovered by Stevinus, a century later, and applied by him to the explanation of the mechanical powers.