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... things 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 ...
... things 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 ...
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... things implies that such things have magnitude ; that such their magnitudes may be measured , and their relations to each other known . But , as there is no measure of velocity except time and space , the proportion of velocities being ...
... things implies that such things have magnitude ; that such their magnitudes may be measured , and their relations to each other known . But , as there is no measure of velocity except time and space , the proportion of velocities being ...
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... things to be laid aside or got rid of as soon as finite lines were found proportional to them . But then these finite ex- ponents are found by the help of fluxions . Whatever there- fore is got by such exponents and proportions is to be ...
... things to be laid aside or got rid of as soon as finite lines were found proportional to them . But then these finite ex- ponents are found by the help of fluxions . Whatever there- fore is got by such exponents and proportions is to be ...
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... thing ? Qu . 22. Whether it be necessary to consider velocities of nascent or evanescent quantities , or moments , or infinitesi- mals ? And whether the introducing of things so incon- ceivable be not a reproach to mathematics ? Qu . 23 ...
... thing ? Qu . 22. Whether it be necessary to consider velocities of nascent or evanescent quantities , or moments , or infinitesi- mals ? And whether the introducing of things so incon- ceivable be not a reproach to mathematics ? Qu . 23 ...
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... things , you do not limit yourself to reason consistently with the nature of such particular things ? And whether such error ought to be imputed to pure algebra ? Qu . 47. Whether the view of modern mathematicians doth not rather seem ...
... things , you do not limit yourself to reason consistently with the nature of such particular things ? And whether such error ought to be imputed to pure algebra ? Qu . 47. Whether the view of modern mathematicians doth not rather seem ...
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