 ... to book debts and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science, without reference to a metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject. A number may be greater or less than another number...  The Principles of Algebra - Page ixby William Frend - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 614 pages
...firft error in teaching the principles of algebra is obvious on pcriifing a few pages only in the firft of Maclaurin's Algebra. Numbers are there divided...allufions to book-debts and other arts. Now, when a perfon caanot explain the principles of a fcience without reference to metaphor, the probability is, that... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 564 pages
...pages only of the first part of Maclaurin's Algebra. Numbers are there divided into two sorts, positive and negative : and an attempt is made to explain the nature of negative numbers, by allusions to book debts and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 562 pages
...pages only of the first part of Maclaurin's Algebra. Numbers are there divided into two sorts, positive and negative : and an attempt is made to explain the nature of negative numbers, by allusions to book debts and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science,... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - Mathematicians - 1916 - 160 pages
...pages only of the first part of Maclaurin's Algebra. Numbers are there divided into two sorts, positive and negative; and an attempt is made to explain the nature of negative numbers by allusion to book debts and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science... | |
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