Page:The Analyst; or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician.djvu/7

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Ornamentation for p7 of Berkeley's 'The analyst'

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CONTENTS.

SECT. I. Mathematicians preſumed to be the great Maſters of Reaſon. Hence an undue deference to their deciſions where they have no right to decide. This one Cauſe of Infidelity.

II. Their Principles and Methods to be examined with the ſame freedom, which they aſſume with regard to the Principles and Myſteries of Religion. In what Senſe and how far Geometry is to be allowed an Improvement of the Mind.

III. Fluxions the great Object and Employment of the profound Geometricians in the preſent Age. What theſe Fluxions are.

IV. Moments or naſcent Increments of flowing Quantities difficult to conceive. Fluxions of different Orders. Second and third Fluxions obſcure Myſteries.

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