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1831 May 19
Posology
Alegomorphics
§ Elucidation continued
Nomenclature amended
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13.
4. Cubing or say Cubation.
Explained in
like manner by the
three intermediate
operations.
14.
5. Involution to the
fourth power or
say Biquadration.
Explained in like
manner: intermediate
operations
four.
15.
Higher than this goes
not the scale of
different independently
denominated equivalences:
by numbers
added to the
word power are
the several gradations
designated:
5th, 6th, power
&c in an infinite
series.
16
Now for the descending
Direction
or say line. Instead
of involution comes
evolution: and
in addition to
this, but two denominations
are
in use: viz.
17
1. Extraction of the
Cube root: meaning
the root of the
number so called
as above the cube
number — the
immediate basis
of it. This is a
mode of division,
correspondent to
that mode of multiplication.
18.
2. Extraction of
the square root.
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