Javier Solana Has Been Called "a Squarer Of Circles"

[SerialExpLain]

Javier Solana has been called "a squarer of circles".

Is that stating he is a Freemason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Solana

[Rosebery]

I wouldn't say so specifically. It's a commonly used term for someone who is rather clever at finding solutions for impossible problems.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle The link's on the page you linked to.

Quote:Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge to construct a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.

In 1882, the problem was proven to be impossible, as a consequence of the fact that that pi (π) is transcendental, not algebraic; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. That the transcendence of π would have that consequence had already been known for some decades; but the transcendence was proved in 1882. Approximate squaring to any given nonzero tolerance, on the other hand, is possible in a finite number of steps, corresponding to the fact that there are rational numbers arbitrarily close to π.

The term quadrature of the circle is sometimes used synonymously, or may refer to approximate or numerical methods for finding the area of a circle.

Cheers

[SerialExpLain]

So it wouldn't be a term used by a Freemason to describe another Freemason?

In something on the net that I read this week, my bookmarks were full or I prolly would have bookmarked the site I'm speaking of, that phrase was established in a specfically Freemasonic context. So that is why I brought it up.

But I just Googled "squaring the circle a freemasonic term" and got A LOT of hits. This one most notable:

Quote:Once “infinity is contained” by Freemasonic equi-partitioned “squaring of the circle”--Drew Hempel from Secrets of the Flying Snake

[Rosebery]

Quote:So it wouldn't be a term used by a Freemason to describe another Freemason?

No not exclusively althought the words separately have significance but that's not unique.

Quote:In something on the net that I read this week, my bookmarks were full or I prolly would have bookmarked the site I'm speaking of, that phrase was established in a specfically Freemasonic context. So that is why I brought it up.

But I just Googled "squaring the circle a freemasonic term" and got A LOT of hits. This one most notable:

Quote:Once “infinity is contained” by Freemasonic equi-partitioned “squaring of the circle”--Drew Hempel from Secrets of the Flying Snake

I'll have a look myself then. Secrets of..... looks like it needs concentrated reading.

Cheers

[SerialExpLain]

More here too Rosebery:

http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp...34&mem=1009

Oh, and as always Cheers to you too.

[Shinobi]

Make sure you check it out Rosebery, with an open mind of course;)