Isaac Newton Quote

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.


The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton (edited by Whiteside), Volume 7; Volumes 1691-1695 / pg. 261. - Geometriae (Treatise on Geometry)

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Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by...

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by...

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by...

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by...