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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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Ideas et Dumber in Absract denoted
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il cher are abstracted trom the Names
aud Figures, as likerise trom aIIDIC
and Practice, as Weit as trom the parti-
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to hare noching ac all for their Object.
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Science ot Numbers is Cubordinace ta
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