Sue Anderson
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807 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Sue Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But more particularly in the science of mathematics, many of them having been able to solve the most abstruse problems in algebra.
In poetry they have been equally distinguished.
Two of the greatest men that ever courted the muses labored under the deprivation of sight.
Homer?
The venerable father of epic poetry.
and the inimitable author of Paradise Lost.
These two illustrious bards will live in the minds of every true lover of poetry.
As long as learning and learned men shall have a place in the page of history.
In philosophy, Saunderson and Euler appear in the most conspicuous point of view.
The former lost his sight when only twelve months old, but was enabled by the strength of his comprehensive genius to
To delineate the phenomena of the rainbow
With all the variegated beauty of colours.
And to clear up several dark and mysterious passages which appeared in Newton's Principia.
And though the latter did not lose his sight until he arrived at the years of manhood
Yet from that period he was able to astonish the world by his labours in the rich fields of science, where he earned those laurels which still continue to flourish in unfaded bloom.
He had the honor of settling that dispute which has so long divided the opinions of the philosophers of Europe respecting the Newtonian and Cartesian systems by deciding in favour of Newton to the satisfaction of all parties.
The treasures of his fertile genius still enriched the academies of Paris, Basel, Berlin, and St.
Petersburg.
In mechanics the blind have gone to considerable lengths
Almost to surpass the bounds of probability.
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