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... Honoured Sir , " Had y course of our correspondence been so barren and un- pleasant as not to afford the least speculation or hint for new Improvement ; and had I engaged therein with no other Motives than what are meerly mercenary ...
... Honoured Sir , " Had y course of our correspondence been so barren and un- pleasant as not to afford the least speculation or hint for new Improvement ; and had I engaged therein with no other Motives than what are meerly mercenary ...
Page 60
... Honoured Sir . It was in the process of elucidating the first and second books of the Principia in correspondence with Blake , that this volume of essays previously mentioned , suggested itself to Simpson , and 11 The Nature and Laws of ...
... Honoured Sir . It was in the process of elucidating the first and second books of the Principia in correspondence with Blake , that this volume of essays previously mentioned , suggested itself to Simpson , and 11 The Nature and Laws of ...
Page 85
... Honoured Sir , " I have considered both your last Letters with an Attention suitable to ye Intricacy of ye Subject , but cannot say I clearly understand some things therein laid down , nor how far they con- duce to y End you are in ...
... Honoured Sir , " I have considered both your last Letters with an Attention suitable to ye Intricacy of ye Subject , but cannot say I clearly understand some things therein laid down , nor how far they con- duce to y End you are in ...
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Abraham de Moivre Algebra Annuities and Reversions answer appeared Application of Fluxions Body Cajori concerning controversy correspondence Curve David Eugene Smith Dear Sir demonstrated Diary Doctrine of Annuities Doctrine of Fluxions Dodson edition eighteenth century Elements of Geometry England equations essay Fluent Francis Blake give given History of Mathematics Honoured Sir Humble Servant Hutton infinite interest John John Landen John Turner Ladies Landen later letter written London Lordship Maclaurin manner Martin Folkes mathe mathematicians Mathematicks matics method of fluxions Moivre Motion Muller nature Newton's method obliged orbit Orders of Fluxions paper plane printed problem proposed publication published pupils Quantity Robert Heath Robert Simson Royal Academy Royal Society says Sciences Second Master Simp solution suppose teach textbooks Theorem theory thing Thomas Simpson thought tion Treatise of Fluxions trigonometry uniform Space uniformly Velocity Woolwich writing written by Simpson