ISBN: 9781231873755

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 188 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 188 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: . . . the degrees on the thermometer by which it is measured And whether this be not supposed in the reasonings of modern analysts Qu. 30. Whether motion can be conceived in a point of space And if motion cannot, whether velocity can And if not, whether a first or last velocity can be conceived in a mere limit, either initial or final, of the described space Qu. 31. Where there are no increments, whether there can be any ratio of increments Whether nothings can be considered as proportional to real quantities Or whether to talk of their proportions be not to talk nonsense Also in what sense we are to understand the proportion of a surface to a line, of an area to an ordinate And whether species or numbers, though properly expressing quantities which are not homogeneous, may yet be said to express their proportion to each other Qu. 32. Whether if all assignable circles may be squared, the circle is not, to all intents and purposes, squared as well as the parabola Or whether a parabolical area can in fact be measured more accurately than a circular Qu. 33. Whether it would not be righter to approximate fairly than to endeavour at accuracy by sophisms Qu. 34. Whether it would not be more decent to proceed by trials and inductions, than to pretend to demonstrate by false principles Qu. 35. Whether there be not a way of arriving at truth, although the principles are not scientific, nor the reasoning just And whether such a way ought to be called a knack or a science Qu. 36. Whether there can be science of the conclusion where there is not 22 evidence of the principles And whether a man can have 22evidence of the principles without understanding them And therefore, whether the mathematicians of the present age act like men of science, in taking so muc. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781231873755

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