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... foreign mathematicians instead of fluxions or velocities of nascent and evanescent increments . 6. Differences of various orders , i.e. quantities infinitely less than quantities infinitely little ; and infinitesimal parts of ...
... foreign mathematicians instead of fluxions or velocities of nascent and evanescent increments . 6. Differences of various orders , i.e. quantities infinitely less than quantities infinitely little ; and infinitesimal parts of ...
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... foreign to your profession ; nor to the abuse that you , and too many more of the like character , are known to make of such undue authority , to the misleading of unwary persons in matters of the highest concernment , and whereof your ...
... foreign to your profession ; nor to the abuse that you , and too many more of the like character , are known to make of such undue authority , to the misleading of unwary persons in matters of the highest concernment , and whereof your ...
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... foreign mathematicians are supposed by some , even of our own , to proceed in a manner less accurate , perhaps , and geometrical , yet more intelligible . Instead of flowing quantities and their fluxions , they consider the variable ...
... foreign mathematicians are supposed by some , even of our own , to proceed in a manner less accurate , perhaps , and geometrical , yet more intelligible . Instead of flowing quantities and their fluxions , they consider the variable ...
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... foreign to the argument , and only a piece of skill to impose upon your reader . If you say Yes , it follows that you then give up at once all the orders of fluxions and infinitesimal differences ; and so most imprudently turn all your ...
... foreign to the argument , and only a piece of skill to impose upon your reader . If you say Yes , it follows that you then give up at once all the orders of fluxions and infinitesimal differences ; and so most imprudently turn all your ...
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... foreign from the pur- pose , the only rational account I can give of it is that Mr. Walton , by puzzling the imagination of his vulgar readers , hoped the better to disguise his betraying the doctrine of his great client , which to a ...
... foreign from the pur- pose , the only rational account I can give of it is that Mr. Walton , by puzzling the imagination of his vulgar readers , hoped the better to disguise his betraying the doctrine of his great client , which to a ...
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