Works, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1898 |
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... hath been an old remark , that Geometry is an excellent Logic . And it must be owned that when the definitions are clear ; when the postulata cannot be refused , nor the axioms denied ; when from the distinct contemplation and ...
... hath been an old remark , that Geometry is an excellent Logic . And it must be owned that when the definitions are clear ; when the postulata cannot be refused , nor the axioms denied ; when from the distinct contemplation and ...
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... hath no magnitude : take it in what light you please , the clear conception of it will ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . II Momentums difficult to comprehend No middle quantity to admitted between a finite quantity and nothing ...
... hath no magnitude : take it in what light you please , the clear conception of it will ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . II Momentums difficult to comprehend No middle quantity to admitted between a finite quantity and nothing ...
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... hath been employed to escape or avoid the admission of quantities infinitely small , yet it seems ineffectual . For aught I see , you can admit no quantity as a medium between a finite quantity and nothing , without admitting ...
... hath been employed to escape or avoid the admission of quantities infinitely small , yet it seems ineffectual . For aught I see , you can admit no quantity as a medium between a finite quantity and nothing , without admitting ...
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... hath been said , that an infinitesimal quantity or difference may be neglected or thrown away , and the conclusion nevertheless be accurately true , although there was no double mistake or rectifying of one error by another , as in the ...
... hath been said , that an infinitesimal quantity or difference may be neglected or thrown away , and the conclusion nevertheless be accurately true , although there was no double mistake or rectifying of one error by another , as in the ...
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... hath been destroyed : 1 See the foregoing figure . by a contrary one . Eighthly , that although , ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . 27 In the foregoing case, the supposed evanescent increment is really a finite quantity, destroyed ...
... hath been destroyed : 1 See the foregoing figure . by a contrary one . Eighthly , that although , ADDRESSED TO AN INFIDEL MATHEMATICIAN . 27 In the foregoing case, the supposed evanescent increment is really a finite quantity, destroyed ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.