Quote#Kindness
But the Moderns advancing yet much farther, have receiv'd into…
Quote byIsaac Newton · 1643–1727
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Arithmetica Universalis (1707).
English (original)
But the Moderns advancing yet much farther, have receiv'd into Geometry all Lines that can be express'd by Æquations, and have distinguish'd, according to the Dimensions of the Æquations, those Lines into Kinds; and have made it a Law, that you are not to construct a Problem by a Line of a superior Kind, that may be constructed by one of an inferior one.
— Isaac Newton
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