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Almost all of the modern authors that consider physics and natural history merely extend the old arg ...ng to dimensions and numbers. One should not be deceived by philosophical works that pretend to be mathematical, but are merely dubious and murky metaphysi ...

...dness itself, he means of course—the same number of plebeian authors whose works are so bad. But his implied satire on aristocratic writing forgets two poin ...en so often recited for the purity of its style, a purity which transcends modern printing. Perhaps some readers may think that Swift cared little for Whisto ...

...en-thousandth'' part of a unit, that is, to ''four'' places of decimals. A modern classical dictionary represents it as done by Philo to ''ten thousand'' pla ...ished this work at about thirty years of age, and lived to eighty-two. His works are collected in folios, but I do not know whether they contain this produc ...

...ecimen, I might have pointed to it in connection with contemporary English works, and made a scornful comparison. But it is not a fair specimen. Beaulieu wa ...true that P and M were used for ''plus'' and ''minus'' in a great many old works.] R signifie ''racine'' en la mesure du Cube, et en l'Armée ''rang''. Q sig ...

...out lunules. Porta was a voluminous writer. His printer announces fourteen works printed, and four to come, besides thirteen plays printed, and eleven waiti ...69}{484}</math> of a diameter. Cataldi, taking Van Ceulen's approximation, works hard at the finding of integers which nearly represent the ratio. He had no ...

...names than one, might be personal, intelligent, and superintendent. In the works of Laplace,{{ref|1}} who is sometimes called an atheist from his writings, ...e Astronomical doctrines of the Moon's rotation ..." Edinburgh. Of all the works I have seen on the question, this is the most confident, and the sorest. {{ ...

...s Christ, exhibited, and its advantages and claims maintained, against all Modern and {{pagenum|346}} merely Human Institutions of the kind: A Letter very re ..."Contributors" etc., from the Acts of the Apostles, etc., and some of the early Fathers. He holds that a Christian may not "make a ''private'' provision ag ...

:The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins{{ref|502}}.... In two volumes. London, 1802, ...a candle is of very unequal transparency. There is in it a reprint of the works on the earth and moon. The discourse on the possibility of going to the moo ...

...bble. We once entertained the same rabble idea of her; but having read her works—for we really have read them—we now regard her with great respect. However, ...isadvantage of being in advance of his age. He had the notion of which the modern geometry has made so much, that of {{pagenum|60}} a circle being the polygo ...

The system of these works is that— These works contain an immense quantity of learning, very honestly put together. I pres ...

...eem very seriously to invalidate some of the most important conclusions of modern astronomy," while the ''Norfolk Herald'' is clear that "there must be a gre ...f metrology which is supposed to have left strong traces in the systems of modern times; showing the Egyptians to have had good approximate knowledge of the ...

...teeple than have rejected the Goodwin Sands. They would have laughed their modern imitators to scorn: but as they are not here, we do it for them. ...he philosophers, who make the flint ''axes'', as they call them, to be the works of men, because no one can see ''what else they can be''. This kind of adop ...