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Unhappily, for giving expression
to the product of an imagined
fluxion, instead of saying fluxionary
product or simply
product & (for, the sort of product
being determined by the occasion
this single term might in general
have sufficed) Newton has employed
the word fluxion. This
is as if in arithmetical addition, instead of the
word the sum, the word, the addition
had been employed: or
instead of the word product
the word multiplication.

Throughout in many parts
of the English language and
probably from the same cause,
more or less, in perhaps every
other language, be the operation
in question what it may in speaking
of the product, the same word
is employed which is employed
in speaking of the operation
of which it is the result.

Thus it is in the instance
here in question; the by as in the
field of elementary arithmetic mathematics
this source of confusion and
perplexity was not opined
what a pity that in the higher part of the field of mathematics the same
attention to weak conceptions,
such as all conceptions are
at first, the same care to avoid
throwing in their way any unnecessary
stumbling blocks, was
not exemplified.

Identifier: | JB/018/163/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 18.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::smith & allnutt 1837 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	john symonds
Corrections	thomas southwood smith	Paper Produced in Year	1837
Notes public	[[notes_public::"portion not made use of" [note in southwood smith's hand]]]	ID Number	6572
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