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... reason . Geometry is the Science of Space , and Arithmetic with Algebra in its character of Universal Arithmetic is the Science of Number . As all our knowledge of the external world must be subject to the conditions of Space and Number ...
... reason . Geometry is the Science of Space , and Arithmetic with Algebra in its character of Universal Arithmetic is the Science of Number . As all our knowledge of the external world must be subject to the conditions of Space and Number ...
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... reason for the belief that is in him , and not to leave him in the condition of Solomon's Sluggard , who is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason . R. P. OF ALGEBRA . THE science which bears this name is iv ...
... reason for the belief that is in him , and not to leave him in the condition of Solomon's Sluggard , who is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason . R. P. OF ALGEBRA . THE science which bears this name is iv ...
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... reason why the number ten should have beer chosen rather than twelve or any other number for the scale o 1 Odyss . iv . 412 . 2 This most ancient manner of giving sentence is noted by Ovid : - Mos erat antiquis , niveis atrisque ...
... reason why the number ten should have beer chosen rather than twelve or any other number for the scale o 1 Odyss . iv . 412 . 2 This most ancient manner of giving sentence is noted by Ovid : - Mos erat antiquis , niveis atrisque ...
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... reason nor explanation.1 The unknown number is named apoμòc , and is denoted by s , the final letter ; a lineal quantity is also designated by the same word . The monad or general unit is denoted by the letters . In The eleventh ...
... reason nor explanation.1 The unknown number is named apoμòc , and is denoted by s , the final letter ; a lineal quantity is also designated by the same word . The monad or general unit is denoted by the letters . In The eleventh ...
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... reason on numbers themselves , as abstract . There are not to be admitted into its reasonings , as necessary , any objects , either visible or capable of being numbered . And besides this study renders a student competent for all ...
... reason on numbers themselves , as abstract . There are not to be admitted into its reasonings , as necessary , any objects , either visible or capable of being numbered . And besides this study renders a student competent for all ...
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Page 29 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page iv - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 30 - We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.
Page 32 - Théorie des fonctions analytiques, contenant les principes du calcul différentiel, dégagés de toute considération d'infiniment petits ou d'évanouissans, de limites ou de fluxions, et réduits à l'analyse algébrique des quantités finies; par JL Lagnuige.
Page 32 - Les plus grandes âmes sont capables des plus grands vices aussi bien que des plus grandes vertus ; et ceux qui ne marchent que fort lentement peuvent avancer beaucoup davantage , s'ils suivent toujours le droit chemin, que ne font ceux qui courent et qui s'en éloignent.
Page 6 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 5 - To make an estimate, what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power. And by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances from the sun, he found, that if any power like gravity held them in their courses, its strength must decrease in the duplicate proportion of the increase of distance.
Page 59 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.