Excerpt from General History of Mathematics: From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century But among the advantages which may be expected from a comparison of the early state of these sciences, with their present extension and improvement, one of the most consider able is, that it will lead to, the full, discovery of the origin of many theories and practices, which though, at first, defective and insufli cient, have given birth to others more correct and commodious in their application. Such, for ...
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Excerpt from General History of Mathematics: From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century But among the advantages which may be expected from a comparison of the early state of these sciences, with their present extension and improvement, one of the most consider able is, that it will lead to, the full, discovery of the origin of many theories and practices, which though, at first, defective and insufli cient, have given birth to others more correct and commodious in their application. Such, for example, has been the case of the Flux iomal and Differential Calculi, which may be traced through the methods of Slusius, Bar row, and the Indivisibles of Cavallerius, to their present improved form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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