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I. An Account of a Diflertation publifhed in La- 
tin by Dr. W eicller, F.R.S. in the Year 1727, 
concerning the vulgar Numeral Figures: 
As alfo fome Remarks upon an Infcription,^ 
formerly in a Window belongingtotheParifh 
Church of Rumfey in Hampshire : By John 
Ward, F. R. S. Rhet. Prof. Grefham. 
Read at a OME Years fince I had the Honour 
Royafsc dety" t0 A before an Affembly of this 
June 7. 1744. Learned Body two Papers, con- 
cerning the Antiquity and Ufe of the Arabian or 
Indian Figures, and more efpecially in relation to 
England. And thofe Papers, being afterwards pub- 
lifhed in the Philojophical Tranfaffions (a), oc- 
cafioned the learned Dr. Weidler, Profeffor of the 
Mathematics at Witemberg , and a Member of this 
Society , to tranfmit to Dr. Mortimer a Hijfertation 
he had formerly printed upon that Subjed (b). Which 
Difcourfe coming before the Society , they were pleafed 
to refer it to my Perufal and Conftderation of which 
the following is a brief Account. 
The Author begins his Difcourfe by obferving the 
great Inconveniencies, that theAntients laboured under 
in their arithmetical Computations, which were ufualJy 
made with the Letters of their feveral Languages, dif- 
( a ) Number 439. (b) Be charaBeribus numerorum vulgaribus, 
& eorum aetatibus, veterum momimev ,r >rum fide illuftratis , Differ t at 
mathematico-critica, a Joan. Frid. Weiuiero, J, U, D. & Mathef. P. P. 
1 foe, Witemb. 1717. Quarto, 
I. ferently 
