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1820. June 4. Ch. or §. 1 2
Posology.

Theoretic or Practical
Ch. or §. 1. Posology
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quid? quintuplex?

2

Question 10. Does the name Geometry afford present to view an
adequate idea of the subject as the word arithmetic does?

Answer. No: what it designates is that branch
of art and science which has for its subject the measure of the
earth: by which a person would naturally understand
the whole earth taken together, and nothing of what is observed
upon it, for instance men and other animals, or at
a distance from it, for instance the sun, moon, and stars.

Question 11. From what language are the words
posology, aligomorphics, arithmetic, morphoscopics and geometry
borrowed and derived?

Answer. From the Greek: it being the language
from which so many other of the most necessary of
our words have been derived.

Question 12. What is the use of taking these
words from another language, and that no longer in common
use, such as the Greek, where, as in the case of aligomorphics,
they can not be explained to us but by means
of other words belonging solely to our own language?

Answer. 1. The saving of words. 2. the shewing
the relation which the two main branches of the art
and science bear to the whole and to each other.

Question 13. What is the use of saving of
words?

Answer. 1. Saving of time: 2. avoidance
of perplexity.

Question 14. Give an example. How is
perplexity avoided by saying morphoscopics instead of
saying, on every occasion, — of that branch of the art and science
of which quantity is the subject, that branch in
which figure is considered?

Answer. The sentences I should utter
would, in many instances, be found unintelligible, if, instead
of a name consisting of no more words than one,
I was, on each occasion, to employ a name having, in
its composition, a multitude of words.

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Date_1	1820-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
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