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XIX. Re m arks upon a Paffage in Caftil- 
lione’s Life of Sir isaac newton. By 
John Winthrop, LL. D. Hollifian Pro - 
feffor of Mathematics , at Cambridge, in 
New England. 
Redde, Jan. f ‘ | 'HERE is a palTage in cas- 
20, 1774. tillione’s life of Sir isaac 
newton, prefixed to his edition of the opus- 
cula, in three volumes 4to. publilhed at Lau- 
fanne and Geneva in 1744, which appears to 
me a palpable miftake; and tends to place 
Sir isaac newton in an inferior light to 
des cartes, in the eyes of foreigners. It is this, 
p. xxxii : “ Ssepiiis fe reprehendebat [neutonus] 
« quod res mere geometricas algebraicis rationibus 
** tradavifl'et, & quod libro fuo de Algebra Arith - 
“ meticge Univerfalis titulum pofuiffet, melius af- 
“ ferens cartesium fuum de re eadem volumen 
* ( dixilfe Geometriam , ut fic oftenderet has com- 
“ putationes fubfidia tantiim effe Geometris ad 
** inveniendum.” The authority he quotes for 
this is Dr. Pemberton, in the preface to his 
View of Sir isaac newton’s Pbilofopby ; but I 
will venture to fay, he has mifinterpreted his 
Author. He reprefents Dr. Pemberton as fay- 
ing } ift, That Sir isaac newton often cen- 
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