>There are some lines in the Dunciad which unfortunately I can't remember
>correctly, but something about "running around the circle, call it square,"
>that perhaps apply to efforts to 'solve' the transformation problem.
Good memory. Here it is:
Mad Mathesis alone was unconfin'd, Too mad for mere material chains to bind, Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, Now running round the circle finds it square.