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Excerpt from Mathematical Tracts of the Late Benjamin Robins, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Society, and Engineer General to the Honourable the East India Company, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing His New Principles of Gunnery, With Several Subsequent Discourses on the Same Subject, the Greatest Past Never Before Printed
Mr. Robins's way of infirutting was generally fimi lar to the courjh, he had followed himfielf but as he only taught per/ons jingly, and not in clafis, it was in his power to vary his method according to the capacity or intention of each 'learner. However he always began with the Elements of Euclide. Not as interpolated by Campanus and Clavius, or anatomij'cd by Herigone and Barrow, or depraved by Tacquet and Dechalles but according to the original handed down to us by ou tiquity much lejfs did he ufe any of the new modelled Elements, that at prefint every where abound.
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