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End is not Panflum^ hut only Si^num ( which he does allow wo/^ 
e(p^ nomn ^Imnii^tvQn this willierve our turn well enough , Eu-^ 
clid's sw/^Hoir, which fome Interpreters render by Signum, others 
have thought fit {mihTully) to c^W PunBtm: But if Mr.thh 
, like not that name, we will not contend about it. Let it be Pm^ 
Mum^ or let it be ^^^^^^^^ (orjif he pleafe,he may call it FexiHum^ 
But then he is to remember , that this is only a Controverfie in 
Grammar juot ia M^it hematic : And his Book fliould have been 
' I atiiulcd Contra Grammattcos, not ^Contra Geometras. Nor is it Eu- 
cirde, but Ciceri), that is concerned, inrendring the Greek Sw^f^oy, 
by the Latine Punclum^ not by Mr. Hobsj Signum^Tht Mathema- 
tician is equally content with either word. 
What he faith here, 19. (and in his fihh Dialp. 10%. 
^t:.)concerning the Angle of ContaUi:imo\\nt%h\xt to thus much, 
That,by the Jtigleof C&ntaH^ h« doth not mean either what Eu* 
elide calls an Angle ,or any thing of that kind5(2nd therefore fays 
nothing to the purpofe of what was in ceintroverfie between 
Claviiis and Peletaritis, when he fays, that /In Angle of ContaB hath 
fome magmtude:)J^ntjihixt by the Angle of ContaU, heunderftands 
the CrookedneJ! cf the Arch ; and in hy\ng,the Afigle of ContaB h&tb 
Jome magnitude^his meaning is, that the Arch of a Circle hath feme 
crookediief ^ or f\% a crooked line : and that, of equal Arches, That is 
the more crooked, whofe chord is fliorteft ; which I think none 
wili denyj/'for who ever doubted^but that a circular Arch is crooj^ 
e^T^.^or^thatjof fuch Arches,equal in \tngth^lhat u the mre ereo^ed^ 
ivhofe ends by bomng are brought fieareji together > ) But, why the 
Crookednefs of an Arch^{[-\o\}\d be called an AmgleofContaB',1 know 
no other reafon, but, becaufe Mr. Hobs loves to call that ChalJ^y 
which others call Cheefe, Of this fee my Hobbius Heauton-timoru^ 
menus ^ from pag. %%.top, lOo. 
What he faith here of lotions or Proportions^znd their Cakulns'-y 
for 8. Chapters, together^ QChap, n. G^r,) is but the fame for 
fubftance, what he had formerly faid in his 4th. Dialogue, and 
elfe where. To which you may fee a full Anfwer,in my Hobbiar 
Hcauton tim. from pag 49. to/?. 88. which I need not here repeat. 
Onely (as a Specimen of Mr* Hobs's Candour , in Falfificati- 
ons) you may by the way obferve,how he deals* with a Demon- 
ih ation of Mr. Kool^s^ in confutation of MxMobis Duplication 
ofthcCubc; Which when he had repeated , pag. 4?. He doth 
then (that it might fccm abfurd) change thofe words, <equales 
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