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11 April 1815
The learner regards it as a sort of impiety to question the truth of anything
delivered in the language of mathematics.
The language of fluxions is the part department of algebra called
fluxions is in the principle throughout the language of fiction. By observation
made of the occasions in which it is not only employed
but employed to practical use – propositions of a physical
nature – propositions exemplified in real figures, exhibiting existing individual quantities of matter, matters or
stiles of things – by this means and no otherwise other, might
the realities which these fictions have been be employed to designate be brought to view and new light substituted to
accustomed and
custom-maintained protected darkness.
Explained and elucidated both of them by the naked
truth, the language of fluxions and the language of the differential
calculus might thus be translated⊞ ⊞ in the first place
into the correspondent
plain and unfigurative
language; and
thence in the next
place into each other: into each other:
and thus if any end further and more useful than gratification of curiosity and the adjudging of the picture of victory between two other
competitors to whom the enjoyment of triumph is equivalent
unattainable of rank a decision on the contest the competition between Newton and Leibnitz
might be decided pronounced en connaissance de cause.
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