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The mathematician knows that such a thing cannot be; but the trisector virtually says it can be, and is bound to produce it to save time.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

The mathematician knows that such a thing cannot be; but the trisector virtually says it can be, and is bound to produce it, to save time.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

Early in the century there was a Turkish trisector of the angle, Hussein Effendi, who published two methods.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene