29 Jun
2013
29 Jun
'13
2:46 a.m.
Sorry. Too early in the morning. I hadn't yet come to: Digging deeper, sure enough, http://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&id=UqgUAAAAQAAJ&q=fertile which has 'proprietez', long 's's, and is sans accents. I wrote:
Bill Gosper: "Both Google and Google Translate wanted to respell the quote as C'est une chose *étrange* combien il est fertile en *propriété*".
Almost. An 's' is missing from the end of the last word. Google has it on page 18 (actual, page 36 of the pdf) of an 1819 edition of 'Oevres de Blaise Pascal', volume 5, which is available for download as a free ebook.