JB/135/233/001

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1820. May 27.
Posology.

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Ch. Subjects of Posology or Mathematics.

Question 1, How many and what things are the subjects
of Posology?

Answer. They are of three sorts. Bodies, Spaces and
Events.

Question 2. What are Events? or say Occurrences?

Answer. They are either motions, or Rests: to every
motion there being a corresponding Rest which is the absence
of it.

Question 3. In speaking of bodies, spaces, or events, which
circumstance or circumstances are considered in the teaching
of posology?

Answer. One circumstance only: namely the quantity.

Question 4. How many and what are the sorts into
which, in the first place, quantity requires to be distinguished
and divided?

Answer. Two: namely figure and number.

Question 5. What is the name of that branch of posology
in and by which its subjects are considered with
reference to figure as well as number?

Answer. Morphoscopic posology: called also Morphoscopics
and Geometry.

Question 6. What is the name of that branch of posology
in and by which its subjects are considered with relation
to number only?

Answer. Aligomorphic posology: called also aligomorphics
and Arithmetic.

Question 7. What examples have we of bodies or portions
of matter?

Answer. Every thing we see, touch, or feel is a
body or portion of matter: we ourselves are, each of us,
a body, a portion of matter.

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Date_1	1820-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	135	Main Headings	posology
Folio number	233	Info in main headings field	posology
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