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... sense and how far geometry is to be allowed an improvement of the mind . 3. Fluxions the great object and employment of the profound geo- metricians in the present age . What these fluxions are . 4. Moments or nascent increments of ...
... sense and how far geometry is to be allowed an improvement of the mind . 3. Fluxions the great object and employment of the profound geo- metricians in the present age . What these fluxions are . 4. Moments or nascent increments of ...
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... Fluxions of fluxions or second fluxions , whether to be conceived as velocities of velocities , or rather as velocities of the second nascent increments . 40. Fluxions considered , sometimes in one sense , sometimes 6 CONTENTS .
... Fluxions of fluxions or second fluxions , whether to be conceived as velocities of velocities , or rather as velocities of the second nascent increments . 40. Fluxions considered , sometimes in one sense , sometimes 6 CONTENTS .
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George Berkeley. 40. Fluxions considered , sometimes in one sense , sometimes in another ; one while in themselves , another in their exponents : hence con- fusion and obscurity . 41. Isochronal increments , whether finite or nascent ...
George Berkeley. 40. Fluxions considered , sometimes in one sense , sometimes in another ; one while in themselves , another in their exponents : hence con- fusion and obscurity . 41. Isochronal increments , whether finite or nascent ...
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... sense would incline one to disregard the judgment of men , in points which they have not considered or examined . But several who make the loudest claim to those qualities do nevertheless the very thing they would seem to despise ...
... sense would incline one to disregard the judgment of men , in points which they have not considered or examined . But several who make the loudest claim to those qualities do nevertheless the very thing they would seem to despise ...
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... Sense is strained and puzzled with the percep- tion of objects extremely minute , even so the Imagination , which faculty derives from sense , is very much strained and puzzled to frame clear ideas of the least particles of time , or ...
... Sense is strained and puzzled with the percep- tion of objects extremely minute , even so the Imagination , which faculty derives from sense , is very much strained and puzzled to frame clear ideas of the least particles of time , or ...
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