LECT. 5th. QUANTITY WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF WHICH MATHEMATICS TREATS IS ONE OF THE MOST GENERAL ABSTRACTIONS FORMED

by The Human Understanding. caption title, and first lines of text by Mathematics

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nd. A manuscript lecture on the principles of mathematics and the two great branches- Arithmetic or the science of Numbers, & Geometry or the science of extension. Stitched sheets, 15 pp., approx. 3750 words, in a neat hand, all but one page written on rectos only. A few ink and pencil corrections, a few pages starting away from the amateur stitching. The unidentified scribe records notes on the origin of Arithmetic, the introduction of commerce and the advancements of society

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