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Quotes from Arithmetica Universalis — Isaac Newton

1643–1727 England

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But it is not the Æquation, but the Description that makes the Curve to be a Geometrical one.

Arithmetica Universalis (1707)

Geometrical Speculations have just as much Elegancy as Simplicity, and deserve just so much praise as they can promise Use.

Arithmetica Universalis (1707)

In my Judgment no Lines ought to be admitted into plain Geometry besides the right Line and the Circle.

Arithmetica Universalis (1707)

Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations in Geometry, as we learn from Pappus.

Arithmetica Universalis (1707)

Geometry was invented that we might expeditiously avoid, by drawing Lines, the Tediousness of Computation.

Arithmetica Universalis (1707)

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