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1820 March 16
Posology
Geometry Rudiments
Definition
A line is a right line
if from one of its points
to another no second other
line can be drawn
but such an one or
if it does not in all
points coincide with
the first will in by some
part of it together with
some part of the first
incl space.
A right line is the
shortest that can be
drawn between any two
points. Compare
this definition with
the former.
5. Morph
Different modes
of
or say
exhibition.
Uses
+ A mathematical
proposition, if it has
no physical facts included
in it, is either
untrue or useless, or
both.
Fundamental Maxims
1. Mathematical ideas
are only physical ideas
generalised.+
2. Number is the
sole intelligible measure
of quantity in
its other form: viz
quantity having relation
to figure
March 1st 1831
In Conic Section of
the curves for
Parameter say
The standard case.
In Posology, Problems
belong to the Art: Theories,
to the Science.
E
For the purpose of
throwing a circle round
all that is capable
of being done in posology,
could not
the logical
method of exhaustion,
as explained in
Chrestomathia Part
II be applied to
the details — applied
in detail as it is
then applied to the
aggregate?
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