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1820 June 25 1831 March 13 M 7
Posology

Theoretic or Practical
Alegomorphic 49
Ch. or § Alegomorphics facilitated

1 1

1 or 20
Which one the principal
known means of promptitude,
dispatch, abbreviation?

Question 1 How many and what are the principal known
means or instruments of promptitude, of dispatch, of abbreviation?

Answer. nor

21
Which the first employed
Answer — arithmetical
signs.

Question 2 What is the first the earliest-employed that
which it as is known from particular history or it
seems reasonable to suppose from the nature of the case, was
the first employed?

Answer. The employing of the arithmetical signs instead
of the words of which they are expressive may be regarded
as the instrument first employed.

3.2.
The second, substitution
of the present signs
to those formerly in use.

Question 3 What is the second?

Answer. A As a second means, and distinguishable from
the former, may be said to be considered the substitution, of the
systems of signs now in use, to those before that time in
use in the most civilized nations.

☞ Proceed to bring to view 1 the Arabic (that now in most use). 2. The Roman;
(also a little in use). 3. The Grecian, (almost entirely out of use.)
Shew the inferiority of the Roman and Grecian in respect
of promptitude

☞ Bring to view the characters (abridgment of Latin words)
still in use in the Royal Chamber of Account the Exchequer,
and probably still in some Colleges of the English Universities. [+]
Shew how multiplication and division fractions vulgar and decimal, extraction of the square
and cube roots could scarcely if at all be performed in
the Roman and Grecian modes.

[+] Fifty years ago I still
I remember its being in
use 50 years ago in Queen's College
Oxford.

Identifier: | JB/135/245/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135.
Date_1	1820-06-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	20-22
Box	135	Main Headings	posology
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field	posology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d6 / e1 / g49
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	46363
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