Page:The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.djvu/100

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The Analyst.

Qu. 49. Whether there be not really a Philoſophia prima, a certain tranſcendental Science ſuperior to and more extenſive than Mathematics, which it might behove our modern Analyſts rather to learn than deſpiſe?

Qu. 50. Whether ever ſince the recovery of Mathematical Learning, there have not been perpetual Diſputes and Controverſies among the Mathematicians? And whether this doth not diſparage the Evidence of their Methods?

Qu. 51. Whether any thing but Metaphyſics and Logic can open the Eyes of Mathematicians and extricate them out of their Difficulties?

Qu. 52. Whether upon the received Principles a Quantity can by any Diviſion or Subdiviſion, though carried ever ſo far, be reduced to nothing?

Qu. 53. Whether if the end of Geometry be Practice, and this Practice be Meaſuring, and we meaſure only assigna-

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