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10 April 1815 Omitt?
Chrest. Tab. II Inserenda Particular Branches
Geometry
2. Practical application
3. iation
In the construction of the sort of Genealogical Tables here in question
the difference between the order of invention, and the order of
demonstration and the order of invention must not be out
use had not
been indicated
of view. It is by the observation made of the practical application
of which the several propositions have been found susceptible Omitt
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that the order of invention is so far as it is capable of
being determined will be indicated determined: and thus the secrets for the benefit of posterity
of inventive games brought to light. The path truth of genius in
the intellectual world has beenin general like that of a in the
physical world: to the age of the ordinary observers make
by which it can be discovered might be discoverable are perceptible. In the spreading of this veil are visible. Love
of case and concurrs with love of fame in prescribing this concealment ?
in the spreading of this veil or what in to express the same idea, dyslogistic language [+] with the addition
of the ointment
of disapprobation
attached to the
practice
is the same thing, pride and vanity and pride
concurr with indolence. In these circumstances considerations may
it should seemperhaps be found the cause of that in us inconsiderable measure of that obscurity who in which [+] To display to the
wondering and not
eyes of the
adept invention and
discoveries of a means
own own in all their freshness is an operation
not only more pleasant
but shorterless tedious
than to come that
of endeavouring to facilitate
to the vulgar vulgar minds
revived the conception
of discoveries that
whether they were or
were not his own
are already become
stale
from Euclid, through Newton, down to the present time, the
works of Mathematicians so generally have been involvedenveloped. As in the
order of time, so in order of dignity and reputation,
communication is provided by invention. But theto communicate in the
most earnest promptest, easiest and most effectual measure
what has already been invented and discovered, is itself
the work of inventive genius and the matter of an art: it
is in a branch of logic, that commanding art, of which
invention to whatsoever subject applied, constitutes one branch
and no more than one.
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