| It involved not only building a library, but inviting savants from all over the Greek world to live in Alexandria. |
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| Bent over their computers, thirty savants were absorbed in equations of the ninety-fifth degree. |
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| They're obsessed with systems, and they're good at systemizing, even when they don't happen to be mathematics professors or savants. |
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| Bent double under their loads, the savants spend hours unpacking and repacking their sacks whenever they meet each other. |
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| The process was begun with the savants who were sent by Napoleon to accumulate information for the multivolume Description de l' Egypte. |
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| It is not enough for a few savants to be privy to esoteric mathematical knowledge for that knowledge to be influential in a wider culture. |
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| Mersenne both kept in touch with savants all over Europe, and seems to have had a clear vision himself of what a new philosophy must consist in. |
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| Maier is among an estimated 50 people in the world recognized as prodigious savants whose abilities are as remarkable as their limitations. |
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| So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into. |
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| Gigerenzer seems to think that considered debate between these savants would permit a slower but better guided development of scientific psychology. |
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| The episode shows how late-17th century savants were unanimous in their choice of Boyle and Newton as the two great icons of early-modern science. |
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| I can think of a dozen equivalent risks faced by emergency planners that by all appearances still do not occupy the minds of these savants of hind-sight. |
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| Inscriptions in both French and Latin were composed by the Petite Academie, a committee of savants that advised the Batiments du Roi on matters of allegory and erudition. |
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| Like idiots savants, Koza's computers work their wizardry without any expert knowledge of circuits. |
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| It intro duces music savants and people lacking all musical ability, a condition called amusia. |
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| After the passing of much time, the savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, replied that Columbus had grossly underestimated the distance to Asia. |
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| French scholars were alerted to the initial publication by a lengthy review published in the Journal de Savants by the orientalist Silvestre de Sacy. |
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