1. (Gulliver critiquing his suit made by the Luputian tailor) “ He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded. “ I think that this quote is important because it shows how even little ways of doing things are different between the two worlds. Gulliver, had he been making the suit, would have used a measuring tape like most would assume to do. But the tailor thinks like a Luputain and decides to sort of estimate his size.
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They process information very differently than from how he would. 3. (Gulliver explaining how the floating island works) “the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turning the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward. And thus, by changing the situation of the stone, as often as there is occasion, the island is made to rise and fall by turns in an oblique direction, and by those alternate risings and fallings
(the obliquity being not considerable) is conveyed from one part of the dominions to the other.” I almost think that this is supposed to be satire on the scientific community. The Lupitians are very technical and mathematical people but they are portrayed as crazies, and I think that Gulliver describing the island in this way is supposed to be a
They process information very differently than from how he would. 3. (Gulliver explaining how the floating island works) “the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turning the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward. And thus, by changing the situation of the stone, as often as there is occasion, the island is made to rise and fall by turns in an oblique direction, and by those alternate risings and fallings
(the obliquity being not considerable) is conveyed from one part of the dominions to the other.” I almost think that this is supposed to be satire on the scientific community. The Lupitians are very technical and mathematical people but they are portrayed as crazies, and I think that Gulliver describing the island in this way is supposed to be a