 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Des Cartes and other algebraical writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves." The truth is, when he first went to college Des Cartes' analytical method was all in vogue;... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Des Cartes and other algebraick writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves."* And yet, as it has been judiciously observed, if this was a fault in him, it was one that... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 792 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Descartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the elements of Euclid with that attention, which so excellent a writer deserves." — But the mode of expression here used, is so different from the foregoing, that there... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1812 - 622 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Des Cartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves/' And that what Dr. Hutton here relates is true, is evident from the following extract from... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 páginas
...matical studies, in applying himself to the works of Descartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves. But if this was a fault, it is certain it was a fault to which we owe both his great inventions... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1816 - 308 páginas
...demonstration. 1 See the article Newton in Hutton's Mathematical Dictionary. other algebraic writers,1 before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention, which so excellent a writer deserves." v Having premised thus much, I shall in the next place prej• 1 Dr. Halley also, who certainly... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 356 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Ues Cartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves. But if this was a fault, it is certain it was a fault to which we owe both his great inventions... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 358 páginas
...studies, in applying himself to the works of Des Cartes, and other algebraic writers, before he hud considered the Elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves. But if this was a fault, it is certain it was a fault to which we owe both his great inventions... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 páginas
...mathematical studies, in applying himself to the works of Descartes and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writer deserves." 37 few years before his master, and, as probably no other suitable confidant was to be found,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 páginas
...regret that " he had applied himself to the works of Descartes, and other algebraic writers, before he had considered the elements of Euclid with that attention which so excellent a writerdeserved.* Dr. Wallis's Arithmetic of Infinites, Saunderson's Logic, and the Optics of Kepler... | |
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He afterwards discovers, as a mistake in his mathematical studies, this neglect of the elementary truths of geometry ; and he expressed to Dr. Pemberton his regret that " he had applied himself to the works of Descartes and other algebraic writers before... 
