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Excerpt from A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing, I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other
H AT Mr. Macl 11v had, many year: ago, intended to puhli/h a Trea on this fuhje?, appears from a letter, dated April 1 9, 17 z 9, to his honoured friend martin F olkes, Efq; now Prefi dent of the Royal Society And 'wejind, in one of his Manufiripts, the Plan of fitch a W'orh, agreeing, almq? in every article, with the content: of this Volume. Had the celebrated Author lived to puhli/h hi 5 own fork, his name would, alone, have heen fuficient to recommend it to the notice of the Publick hut that Ta? having, by his lamented premature death, devolved to the gen tlemen whom he left entru?ed with his Pa 1) ere, the Reader may reafonahly expel? Jhme account if the material: of which it con/i?s, and of the care that has heen taken in collefi'in g and dijibo/ing them, [6 a: heft to an/'wer the Aa thor's intention, and fill up the Plan he had defignea'. Phil. Trauf. N 408.
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