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Page ix
... printing in Bengal . To guard against the effects of any accident , which might prevent the execution of this determination , he communicated the circumstance to his friends , that it might eventually be made known to the public ; and ...
... printing in Bengal . To guard against the effects of any accident , which might prevent the execution of this determination , he communicated the circumstance to his friends , that it might eventually be made known to the public ; and ...
Page 8
... printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems ... printing of the Greenwich Observations , which will be a work of good use , especially as it is now freed from the ...
... printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions , but being shewed Sir Isaac Newton's ( who it seems ... printing of the Greenwich Observations , which will be a work of good use , especially as it is now freed from the ...
Page 10
... printing them , since the subject is too curious to expect any profit from it ; and besides now , as the Royal Society having done them- selves the honour of choosing you a member , something from you can- not but be acceptable to them ...
... printing them , since the subject is too curious to expect any profit from it ; and besides now , as the Royal Society having done them- selves the honour of choosing you a member , something from you can- not but be acceptable to them ...
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