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" These are said not to be moments, but quantities generated from moments, which last are only the nascent principles of finite quantities. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be neglected in mathematics : that the fluxions are celerities, not... "
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society - Page 13
by Edinburgh Mathematical Society - 1899
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 2

George Berkeley - 1820 - 474 pages
...decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. IV. By moments we are not to understand finite particles....second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 2

George Berkeley - 1820 - 478 pages
...quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. IV. By moments we are not to understand fmite particles. These are said not to be moments, but quantities...fluxions. And the fluxions of these second fluxions are culled third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad itifinitum. Now, as our sense is strained...
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The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including ..., Volume 2

George Berkeley, George Newenham Wright - Philosophy, Modern - 1843 - 468 pages
...celerities, not proportional to the finite increments though ever so small ; but only to the moments of nascent increments, whereof the proportion alone,...second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c., ad infinitum. Now as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas ..., Volume 2

George Berkeley - Philosophy, Modern - 1843 - 470 pages
...celerities, not proportional to the finite increments though ever so small ; but only to the moments of nascent increments, whereof the proportion alone,...second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c., ad infinitum. Now as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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Matter for Materialists: a series of letters in vindication and extension of ...

Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pages
...celerities not proportional to the finite increments though ever so small : but only to the moments of nascent increments, whereof the proportion alone,...second fluxions are called third fluxions ; and so on : fourth, fifth, sixth, &c., ad infinitum. Now, as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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Works, Volume 3

George Berkeley - 1898 - 580 pages
...decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. 4. By moments we are not to understand finite particles....second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne, Volume 3

George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 556 pages
...decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. 4. By moments we are not to understand finite particles....second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book

Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be...second fluxions are called third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., ad infinitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book

Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be neglected hi mathematics; that the fluxions are celerities, not...second fluxions are called third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., ad inflnitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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From Kant to Hilbert Volume 1: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics

William Bragg Ewald - Mathematics - 2005 - 696 pages
...or decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. 4 By moments we are not to understand finite particles....these second fluxions are called third fluxions: and soon, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception...
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