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 all did not study them alike. Plato is said to have written over the Door of his Academy, Let no Man enter here, who does not understand Geometry. None of all the learned Ancients has been more extolled by other learned Ancients, than Archimedes. So that if in these Things the Moderns have made so great a Progress, this affords a convincing Argument, that it was not Want of Genius which obliged them to stop at, or to come behind the Ancients in any Thing else.

Aving now enquired into the State of Mathematicks, as they relate to Lines and Numbers in general, I am next to go to those Sciences which consider them as they are applied to Material Things. But these being of several Sorts, and of a vast Extent, taking in no less than the whole Material World, it