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Excerpt from Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle, and the Geometry of Solids; To Which Are Added Elements of Plane and Sphericale Trigonometry
One of the alterations made with this view, respects the Doctrine of Proportion, the method of treating which, as it is laid down in the fifth of euclid, has great advantages, accompanied with considerable de feets; of which, however, it must be observed, that the advantages are essential, and the defects only ac cidental. To explain the nature of the former, re quires a more, minute examination than is suited to this place, and must, therefore, be reserved for the Notes; but, in the mean time, it may he remarked.
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