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monftrations, &c. And we may juftly fay of his definitions and
demonftrations, the found of which fo often alarming the ears
of the ignorant, that they are, as a certain writer obferves,
“ Built upon a few principles of common fenfe, without which
the moil domeftic and fimple negotiations of life cannot be
tranfadfed, and that, what they fhun as fubjedfs too fublime
and intricate for their comprehenfion, are only the moil fami-
liar truths made artificial by regularity and difguifed by a tech-
nical language.”
Upon this view of Geometry, I fhall now proceed to the
confideration of fuch Problems as every workman of tolerable
capacity will eafily underhand, and find advantageous to him.
And, for the fake of making every part of this book as in-
telligible and ufeful as I am able, I fhall, in the courfe of pro-
ceeding, explain fuch * technical terms as may be neceffarily
ufed in the fubfequent pages, and which, for propriety’s and
brevity’s fake, cannot well be avoided on fubjedts of this nature.
And, m attempting this, I hope not to incur the difagreeable
title of a pedant; as I pretend not to give thefe explanations as
the produce of my own {kill in Etymology, but fhall recom-
mend them to the reader as they are found in the writings of
* From tcchne, art which belong to the terms and rules of arts and fciences.
C men
monftrations, &c. And we may juftly fay of his definitions and
demonftrations, the found of which fo often alarming the ears
of the ignorant, that they are, as a certain writer obferves,
“ Built upon a few principles of common fenfe, without which
the moil domeftic and fimple negotiations of life cannot be
tranfadfed, and that, what they fhun as fubjedfs too fublime
and intricate for their comprehenfion, are only the moil fami-
liar truths made artificial by regularity and difguifed by a tech-
nical language.”
Upon this view of Geometry, I fhall now proceed to the
confideration of fuch Problems as every workman of tolerable
capacity will eafily underhand, and find advantageous to him.
And, for the fake of making every part of this book as in-
telligible and ufeful as I am able, I fhall, in the courfe of pro-
ceeding, explain fuch * technical terms as may be neceffarily
ufed in the fubfequent pages, and which, for propriety’s and
brevity’s fake, cannot well be avoided on fubjedts of this nature.
And, m attempting this, I hope not to incur the difagreeable
title of a pedant; as I pretend not to give thefe explanations as
the produce of my own {kill in Etymology, but fhall recom-
mend them to the reader as they are found in the writings of
* From tcchne, art which belong to the terms and rules of arts and fciences.
C men