THE Present State OF THE REPUBLICK OF LETTERS.: Giving a General View of the State of Learning Throughout EUROPE; and Containing Not Only an Early Account, But Accurate Abstracs of the Most Valuable Books Published in Great Britain Or Foreign Parts. Interpreted with Dissertationis on Several Curious and Entertaining Subjects; Miscellaneous Reflections on AUTHORS; and Historical Memoirs of the Lives of the Most Eminent WRITERS in All Branches of Polite Literature, Volume 17W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St. Paul's, 1736 |
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Page 89
... Robins has fhewn how to apply that method to the determining the pro- portions of fluxions . § . 14. Here the diftinction made at the begin- ning of Mr. Robins's last Difcourfe is not attend- ed to ; where it is obferved , that the fame ...
... Robins has fhewn how to apply that method to the determining the pro- portions of fluxions . § . 14. Here the diftinction made at the begin- ning of Mr. Robins's last Difcourfe is not attend- ed to ; where it is obferved , that the fame ...
Page 94
... Robins in his last per united both these together ? Why then does Philalethes reprefent Mr. Robins's first description of Sir Ifaac Newton's method thus imperfect ? pa- § . 13. None of the fuppofitions really contain- ed in this Lemma ...
... Robins in his last per united both these together ? Why then does Philalethes reprefent Mr. Robins's first description of Sir Ifaac Newton's method thus imperfect ? pa- § . 13. None of the fuppofitions really contain- ed in this Lemma ...
Page 96
... Robins's meaning , here called the fourth interpre- tation of the Lemma in queftion , it is to be ho- ped his unprejudiced readers can . Suppose Mr. Robins means , that fome of these quantities may perpetually and to all eternity have ...
... Robins's meaning , here called the fourth interpre- tation of the Lemma in queftion , it is to be ho- ped his unprejudiced readers can . Suppose Mr. Robins means , that fome of these quantities may perpetually and to all eternity have ...
Page 103
... Robins ought to have been poftponed , till the affertion be attempted to be proved . § . 5. The fecond Lemma was not produced in the account of Mr. Robins's Difcourfe as an ex- ample of the whole of the affertion juft quoted from him ...
... Robins ought to have been poftponed , till the affertion be attempted to be proved . § . 5. The fecond Lemma was not produced in the account of Mr. Robins's Difcourfe as an ex- ample of the whole of the affertion juft quoted from him ...
Page 104
... Robins's purpose , it would not be an entire confutation of Mr. Robins's affertion ; nay it would be no confutation at all ; for if Sir Ifaac Newton has applied equality to vanishing quanti- ties , Mr. Robins has ftill fhewn the truth ...
... Robins's purpose , it would not be an entire confutation of Mr. Robins's affertion ; nay it would be no confutation at all ; for if Sir Ifaac Newton has applied equality to vanishing quanti- ties , Mr. Robins has ftill fhewn the truth ...
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