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 Age, as well as for their other Inventions in Geometry. Tschirnhaus's Medicina Mentis will give a clear Idea of many things relating to this Matter:

And now, having gone through the several Parts of the Parallel which I proposed at first to make, I shall close all with Sir William Temple's Words a little altered. (k) 'Though Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus, may be reckoned amongst the First mighty Conquerours of Ignorance, in our World; and though they made great Progresses in the several Empires of Science, yet not so great in very many Parts, as their Successors have since been able to reach. These have pretended to much more, than barely to learn what the others taught, or to remember what they invented; and being able to compass that it self, have set up for Authors upon their own Stocks, and not contenting themselves only with commenting upon those Texts, have both copied after former Originals already set them, and have added Originals of their own in many things of a much greater Value."