The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia: With Copious Notes and Illustrations, and a Great Variety of Deductions and Problems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780260421845: The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia: With Copious Notes and Illustrations, and a Great Variety of Deductions and Problems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia: With Copious Notes and Illustrations, and a Great Variety of Deductions and Problems

IV. A collection of Miscellaneous Problems, with their solu tions.

The reader will observe that the short account given of the doctrine of Exhaustions and Indivisibles, and also Arts. 52, 53, and 54, on curvature, have been extracted almost wholly from Maclaurin; and as utility has been his sole object, the Com piler of the following sheets has throughout unreservedly bor rowed from every valuable source within his reach.

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