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1 Prefix an essay in the familiar popular stile stating the several
suppositions which Geometrical Arguments procede on. What is supposed or is otherwards taken for
granted, and how far what is supposed or taken
for granted is conformable to physical existance.unusually-spelled text.

2 To find matter for Preface examine the marginal
contents of the several Heads and refer to those
parts which are thought to afford proper matter,
Refer to them from the Sheets entitled Prefatoria.

3 The first and Fundamental Maxim Axiom
with all Euclid's Editors is that Euclid is
infallible; The perpetual consequence is that
if they find any thing they do not like, it is on
that account alone not Euclid's but somebody else's.
By men of this frame of Mind it is in vain to
expect that the Art of Teaching Geometry or
of any other Science should ever be brought to
its perfection. For They conceive it impossible
for Euclid's method to be improved.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	135	Main Headings
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field	prefatoria (i)
Image	002	Titles
Category	private material	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham; samuel bentham; uk14	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [with crown] [britannia emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham; samuel bentham	Paper Producer
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