...particles, or should use little curve lines for right ones; I would not be understood to mean indivisibles, but evanescent divisible quantities ; not the sums...ratios; and that the force of such demonstrations alwiys depend; on the method laid down in the foregoing lemmas. " Perhaps it may be objected, that...

...particles, or should use little curve lines for right ones, I would not be understood to mean indivisibles, but evanescent divisible quantities; not the sums...such demonstrations always depends on the method laid doA'n in the foregoing lemmas. ' Perhaps it may be objected that there is no ultimate proportion of...

...indivisible, but evanescent 1 In the third edition " conceptui" takes the place of "imagination!." divisible quantities ; not the sums and ratios of...depends on the method laid down in the preceding lemmas. 14. "It is objected, that there is no ultimate j proportion of evanescent quantities ; because the...

...should use little curved lines for right (straight) ones, I would not be understood to mean indivisibles but evanescent divisible quantities; not the sums...demonstrations always depends on the method laid down in the foregoing Lemmas." In the introduction to the De Quadrature (discussed in the next section) he similarly...

...evanescent 12. Breidert (1969) suggests the same reading as I present here. • 162 • Chapter Five divisible quantities; not the sums and ratios of determinate...demonstrations always depends on the method laid down in the foregoing Lemmas. (Principia I, 1, 11) Berkeley's entry 374 clearly refers to this Newtonian passage...

...as straight," 1 do not wish to be understood as meaning indivisibilia, but evanescent divisibilia; not the sums and ratios of determinate parts, but always the limits of sums and ratios; and the force of such demonstrations always depends on the methods laid down in the preceding lemmas. It...

...straight ones, I would not be understood to mean indivisibles, but evanescent divisible quantities; not sums and ratios of determinate parts, but always the limits of sums and ratios. ( 1 947, p. 38) Again, later in the Principia, he forbade consideration of continuous variables in...

...particles. or should use little curved lines for right ones. I would not be understood to mean indivisibles. but evanescent divisible quantities: not the sums...demonstrations always depends on the method laid down in the foregoing Lemmas.4 The common answer of the fluxionists was that Berkeley's logical criticism was applicable...

...particles, or should use little curved lines for right ones, I would not be understood to mean indivisibles, but evanescent divisible quantities; not the sums...parts, but always the limits of sums and ratios... Perhaps it may be objected, that there is no ultimate proportion of evanescent quantities; because...