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TO THE

Right Honourable

George Earl of MacclesfielA .

MY LORD,

A S I esteem it a very great Honour tobe permitted to place the followingSheets under your Lordship’s Pro-tection, who are not only an Encourager of,but an Ornament to, Mathematical Learn-ing ; I have taken more than ordinary Pains,that, What is here ushered into the World,with such Advantage, may not be found al-together unworthy of so distinguished aPatron.

I am not vain enough to imagine, that, toOne so deeply read in these abstruse and cu-rious Speculations, as your Lordship is uni-A 2 versally