Quote: combine geometrical analysis with algebra by reducing proportions to simple symbols and relations

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I believed it would be more worthwhile were … [mathematical] proportions in a general way, and to suppose them to … easier to acquire knowledge of these proportions, and … apply them all the better to everything else … occasionally needed to consider each of them individually, … that, to consider them better in particular, I … I could more distinctly represent to my imagination … had to explicate them by means of certain … aspects of geometrical analysis and algebra, and I …   Google-1   Google-2

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