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1831. May 4. A.M.

Posology.

Conjectural History

1. Morphoscopic
Euclid a treatise on
form — regarding quantity
— learning — his the
first work extant
though the science
practised long before
him.

2. Morph.
Land cultivation
must have preceded
measurement.

3. Alegomorphics
Decimal mode derived
from the number
of fingers.

4. Aleg.
Six-fingered persons
have been known —
they would have
adopted the duodecimal
mode.

5. Aleg.
Extraordinary that designation
by single figures
should have stopped
at 9 — 10 being the
number of the fingers.

6. Logic
Morph.
Our notions of posology
derived from our senses,
principally sight and
feeling.

7 Logic
Morph
But tho' feeling not commonly
used in studying
posology, blind have
learnt & taught it.

8. Logic
Morph.
Posological ideas not
distinguished from physical
ideas — though
distinguished from other
physical ideas.

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9 Logic
Morph
Pair of compasses
how originally made

10. Morph.
Two sources of ideas of
geometrical figures —
Observation & Formation

11. Morph.
Archetypes by which
the idea of a sphere
may have been suggested.

12. Aleg.
Morph.
Alegomorphics simpler
and easier
than Morphoscopics

13 Logic
Aleg.
In Alegomorphics
abbreviation the
instrument employed.

14 Logic
Aleg.
Here then the history
the course taken
is plain and
obvious — Somebody
thought of employing
these marks
for abbreviation —
Arabic numerals
more apt than
Roman.

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15 or 1. Morph.
Objects of sense
most easily grasped
by the mind.

16 or 2. Morph.
Origin of Trigonometry.
— viz. in Egypt

Identifier: | JB/135/138/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135.
Date_1	1831-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-14, 15 or 1 - 16 or 2
Box	135	Main Headings	posology
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	posology
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	46256
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