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A learned Student in Mathematics has long published his ability and desire to construct breeches upon geometrical principles[1].
Mr. Nunn is certainly ingenious, and his breeches, a few salient angles excepted, admirable; but the artist who should make bridles, saddles, and other equestrian paraphernalia, by the rules of pure mathematics, would render a much more praise-worthy service to the public. For if the flimsy leather breeches require geometrical cutting, how much more necessary must it be to the tough hide which forms the bridle? and to what purpose will the geometry in the breeches operate, if the saddle, by which they are to
- ↑ Mr. Nunn's advertisement is as follows: "BREECHES-MAKING IMPROVED BY GEOMETRY." "Thomas Nunn, Breeches-maker, No. 29, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, has invented a system on a mathematical principle, by which difficulties are solved, and errors corrected: its usefulness for ease and neatness in fitting, is incomparable, and is the only perfect rule for that work ever discovered. Several hundreds (noblemen, gentlemen, and others) who have had proof of its utility, allow it to excel all they ever made trial of."
