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... Thoughts , which Ig- norance and Superftition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy Mathematicks are to Superftition , appears from this , That in thofe Countries , where Romish Priests exercise their barbarous Tyranny over the Minds of ...
... Thoughts , which Ig- norance and Superftition are apt to beget . How great an Enemy Mathematicks are to Superftition , appears from this , That in thofe Countries , where Romish Priests exercise their barbarous Tyranny over the Minds of ...
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... thought a Physician should be able to know the fituation and aspects of the Stars , which they believed had influence upon Men and their Difeafes , ( and pofitively to deny it , and fay , that they have none at all , is the effect of ...
... thought a Physician should be able to know the fituation and aspects of the Stars , which they believed had influence upon Men and their Difeafes , ( and pofitively to deny it , and fay , that they have none at all , is the effect of ...
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... thoughts by Mathematical ex- amples , and that not only in Logick , & c . but even in Ethicks , where he makes use of Geometrical and Arithmetical proportion , to explain commutative and diftributive juftice . Every body knows , that ...
... thoughts by Mathematical ex- amples , and that not only in Logick , & c . but even in Ethicks , where he makes use of Geometrical and Arithmetical proportion , to explain commutative and diftributive juftice . Every body knows , that ...
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... elfe . Upon this depend the principles of Game . We find Sharpers know enough of this , to cheat fome men that would take it very ill to be thought Bubs Bubbles : And one Gamefter exceeds another , as he 22 An Effay on the Usefulness.
... elfe . Upon this depend the principles of Game . We find Sharpers know enough of this , to cheat fome men that would take it very ill to be thought Bubs Bubbles : And one Gamefter exceeds another , as he 22 An Effay on the Usefulness.
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... thought a Jewel . And at laft , that famous Pyramid was fet up in the Campus Martius , to ferve for a Gnomon to a Dial marked on the street . To this fort of Engines ought to be referred Spheres , Globes , Aftrolabes , Projections of ...
... thought a Jewel . And at laft , that famous Pyramid was fet up in the Campus Martius , to ferve for a Gnomon to a Dial marked on the street . To this fort of Engines ought to be referred Spheres , Globes , Aftrolabes , Projections of ...
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