Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful F…

Isaac Barrow
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Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ✨ Isaac Barrow (1734). The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge, p.28
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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. ✨ Isaac Barrow (1849). Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects, p.38
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Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. ✨ Isaac Barrow (1734). The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge, p.28

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