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familiar argument that an infinite-sided polygon is a curve. Newton asserts that the force now acts continually, and areas remain proportional to times. 8. Gregory MS fo. 13, cited Iliffe (1995, p. 172). Leibniz’s ideas on the nature of atoms or ‘monads’ and the souls which animated them were equally strange; but they were not linked to an ideology which tried to validate ideas by their antiquity. 178 A History of Mathematics Fig. 5 Newton’s picture for Principia I, proposition 1. This

Personne, du reste, n’a mieux saisi le vrai sens de Sanchoniathon que Wagner (Edeen zur Mythol. der alten Welt, p. 277), qui, par ces animaux d’abord dépourvus de sentiment et sous la forme d’oeuf, qui s’éveillent ensuite à l’intelligence, entend les monades sommeillantes (nous dirions les embryons) de la vie organique. »718 Pour celui qui lit conjointement le texte phénicien et celui de Pouchet, comme Flaubert a pu le faire et comme nous l’avons fait, la coïncidence entre l’« oeuf » primordial de l’auteur

produce wheat, and wheat to PAGE 90 1 3 produce flour, or if one animal can originate another, how then can we account for their primal origin? How were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of Galilee, — and that, too, without meal or monad from which loaf or fish could come? 6 9 12 15 Mind is substance The earth's orbit and the imaginary line called the equator are not substance. The earth's motion and position are sustained by Mind alone. Divest yourself of the thought