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... whole Art of Navigation , small 8vo . 1702 . Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos ; or a new Introduction to the Ma- thematics , containing the Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry , de- monstrated in a short and easy Method , 8vo . 1706 ...
... whole Art of Navigation , small 8vo . 1702 . Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos ; or a new Introduction to the Ma- thematics , containing the Principles of Arithmetic and Geometry , de- monstrated in a short and easy Method , 8vo . 1706 ...
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... whole transac- tion . He is very fond of it , and we expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems would rather have them write ...
... whole transac- tion . He is very fond of it , and we expect it well done . Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems would rather have them write ...
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... whole controversy , was I not sure that you know , those only are most capable of objecting against his writings , that least understand them . However , in a little time , you will see some of them in the Philosophical Transactions ...
... whole controversy , was I not sure that you know , those only are most capable of objecting against his writings , that least understand them . However , in a little time , you will see some of them in the Philosophical Transactions ...
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... whole nights to study , taking coffee or tea as an antidote to drowsiness ; and his im- provement , by these extraordinary exertions , was so rapid , that he soon became the prime favourite of his master , who , with an excusable ...
... whole nights to study , taking coffee or tea as an antidote to drowsiness ; and his im- provement , by these extraordinary exertions , was so rapid , that he soon became the prime favourite of his master , who , with an excusable ...
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... whole translation might be perfectly literal , and the Oriental images accurately preserved . The task would have been far easier to him , if he had been directed to finish it in Latin ; for the acquisition of a French style was ...
... whole translation might be perfectly literal , and the Oriental images accurately preserved . The task would have been far easier to him , if he had been directed to finish it in Latin ; for the acquisition of a French style was ...
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