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Page 27
... particular case he referred to Mr. Pope's lines " And running round ye circle finds it square , " and discussed whether Pope appeared to have had a " right Idea , of what Geometers mean , by squaring of ye circle or of ye Branch of ...
... particular case he referred to Mr. Pope's lines " And running round ye circle finds it square , " and discussed whether Pope appeared to have had a " right Idea , of what Geometers mean , by squaring of ye circle or of ye Branch of ...
Page 112
... particular case , Simpson supplemented the printed form with a letter elaborating upon Mr. John Davis's qualifications : " Dear Sir , " You will perhaps be surprised at receiving a letter from me in relation to ye Subject I am now going ...
... particular case , Simpson supplemented the printed form with a letter elaborating upon Mr. John Davis's qualifications : " Dear Sir , " You will perhaps be surprised at receiving a letter from me in relation to ye Subject I am now going ...
Page 173
... particular regard to what comes thro ' your hands from the old Contributors : But cou'd have wished that you had also sent ( as you did last year ) the calculations of ye Lunations and ye Moon's Rising and Setting , as I shall not have ...
... particular regard to what comes thro ' your hands from the old Contributors : But cou'd have wished that you had also sent ( as you did last year ) the calculations of ye Lunations and ye Moon's Rising and Setting , as I shall not have ...
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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