great which form an Angle infinitely little?
That a right Line, which is a right Line ſ long as it is finite, by changing infinitely little its Direction, becomes an infinite Curve; and that a Curve may become infinitely leſs than another Curve?
That there are infinite Squares, infinite Cubes; and Infinites of Infinites all greater than one another, and the laſt but one of which, is nothing in Compariſon of the laſt?
All theſe Things which at firſt appear to be the utmoſt Exceſs of Frenzy, are in reality an Effort of the Subtilty and Extent of the human Mind, and the Art of finding Truths, which till then had been unknown.
This ſo bold Edifice is even founded on ſimple Ideas. The Buſineſs is to meaſure the Diagonal of a Square, to give the Area of a Curve, to find the ſquare Root of a Number, which has, none in common Arithmetic. After all, the Imagination ought not to be ſtartled any more at ſo many Orders of
Infinites,
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