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154 Infinites, than at the o well known Propoition, viz. that Curve Lines may always be made to pas between a Circle and a Tangent; or at that other, namely that Matter is diviible in infinitum. Thee two Truths have been demontrated many Years, and are no les incomprehenible than the Things we have been peaking of. many Years the Invention of this famous Calculation was denied Sir Iaac Newton. In Germany Mr. Leibnitz was conider'd as the Inventor of the Differences or Moments, call'd Fluxions, and Mr. Bernouilli claim'd the integral Calculation. However, Sir Iaac is now thought to have firt made the Dicovery, and the other two have the Glory of having once made the World doubt whether 'twas to be acrib'd to him or them. Thus ome conteted with Dr. Harvey the Invention of the Circulation of the Blood, as others diputed with Mr. Perrault that of the Circulation of the Sap.