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 ber of Curves; whereas the Ancients could never measure the Length of one. If I should descend to Particulars, the Time would fail me. As our Algebra, so also our Common Arithmetick is prodigiously more perfect than theirs; of which, Decimal Arithmetick and Logarithms are so evident a Proof, that I need say no more about it.'

'I would not be thought, however, to have any Design to sully the Reputation of those Great Men, Conon, Archimedes, Euclid, Apollonius, &c. who, if they had lived to enjoy our Assistance, as we now do some of theirs, would, questionless, have been the greatest Ornaments of this Age, as they were deservedly the greatest Glory of their own.' Thus far Mr. Craig.

Those that have the Curiosity to see some of these Things proved at large, which Mr. Craig has contracted into one View, may be amply satisfied in Dr. Walliss History of Algebra, joyned with Gerhard Vossiuss Discourses De Scientiis Mathematicis.

It must not here be forgotten, that Abstracted Mathematical Sciences were exceedingly valued by the ancientest Philosophers: None that I know of expressing a Contempt of them but Epicurus, tho'