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"The Authors who write near the beginnings of science, are, in general the most instructive: they take the reader more…"

"There is another point... and that is the method of demonstration by geometrical figures. In the first solution of Is…"

"Although I am not aware of having omitted any thing that is requisite to the full explanation of the subject, yet I c…"

"To history we shall adhere no farther, than is sufficient to preserve an unbroken series of methods gradually becomin…"

"The methods of the Bernoullis and of Taylor, were held, at the time of their invention, to be most complete and exact…"

"In 1810 a work was published in Cambridge under the following title—A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems and the Ca…"

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