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1831 May 21 Posology ult
II Morphoscopics
S M of Demonstration
Euclid

Superseded the page, but consoultable

Note how an impropriety of expression which Euclid
has fallen which as far as I can learn no more as
yet brought to view, this is, in the disposition of the sort of figure in
question, the speaking not of its sides but of its angles: an equilateral
trilateral figure is what he should have called it. not an
equilateral triangle, or say triangular figure. In other words, it
at by the masses of its sides that is what he should have called
it by - not the names of its angles.

The origin of the impropriety, and the imness that
re for it in the point of the ideas planted made to appear in his own
other minds or this. Of angles it is that he speakstrials before he
speaks of linesin: hra of lines that he should have
spoke, before he spoke of lines
speaks of lines in number and such as to comed
or say enclose, and embrace a space.

The consequence is - that the he givessuggests if an
angle is altogether one instruction one It is a thingone Is it a
Is it a line only? No it is more than a line. It is a
surface? No - it is not a surface: it is amounts not tonot a compleat surface
be that surface ever so mi: the least numberof the line capable of inclu
say a surface the least number is three: and to constitute in
angle he to constitute the same able
something, lines he gives not — he allows not more than he
his two lines may be of the same length as the other, is of two
different length they of the bill be of any number of
millions of inchs in length as in the case of the rags if higher,
or if no more than a fraction of the millionth of an inch in length
like the of the one of one this is the of the ephemerial animalcule

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Date_1	1831-05-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	135	Main Headings	posology
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	posology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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