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Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p1
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Dimensions
height (page): 314mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
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Description
These are John Collins's counter suggestions to Thomas Hobbes's endeavour to invalidate the doctrine of John Wallis in his Arithmetica infinitorum (1656). Hobbes and Wallis had been entangled in a long-lasting debate about Wallis's methodology ever since its publication.
Collins here is trying to prove, against Hobbes's opinions, that arithmetic can be used satisfactorily for the solving of mathematical problems.
Collins here is trying to prove, against Hobbes's opinions, that arithmetic can be used satisfactorily for the solving of mathematical problems.
Transcription
The Answer of John Collins of a Paper of Mr. Hobbs ~ endeavouring to invalidate the doctrine of Dr Wallis in his Arithmetica Infinitorum
"But that even this Arithmetick is not only admirable for Invention but satisfactory suo genere we come not to shew."
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
"But that even this Arithmetick is not only admirable for Invention but satisfactory suo genere we come not to shew."
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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