 ... tis evidently impossible there should be any such thing ; for every line, how minute soever, is still divisible into parts less than itself; therefore there can be no such thing as a line quavis data minor or infinitely small.  Hermathena - Page 1811901Full view - About this book
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 466 pages
...small, or partes infinitesimae of finite quantitys, and much less of infinitesimae infinitesimarum, and so on. This, nevertheless, is very common with...than itself; therefore there can be no such thing as a line quavis data minor or infinitely small. Further it plainly follows that an infinitesimal even... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 448 pages
...small, or paries injinitesimae of finite quantitys, and much less of injinitesimae infinitesimarum, and so on. This, nevertheless, is very common with...than itself; therefore there can be no such thing as a line quavis data minor or infinitely small. Further it plainly follows that an infinitesimal even... | |
 | Douglas M. Jesseph - 1993 - 335 pages
...infinitesimals altogether: 'Tis plain to me we ought to use no sign without an idea answering to it; & 'tis as plain that we have no idea of a line infinitely...than itself; therefore there can be no such thing as a line quavis data minor or infinitely small. (Works 4:235-36) There are two important features of... | |
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