Excerpt from A Treatise of Algebra: Wherein the Principles Are Demonstrated, and Applied in Many Useful and Interesting Inquiries, and in the Resolution of a Great Variety of Problems of Different Kinds The motives that first gave birth to the ensuing vw'ork, were not so much any extravagant hopes the author could form to himself Of greatly extending the subject by the addition of a large variety of new improvements (though the reader will find many things here that are nowhere else to be met with), as an earnest desire to See a subject of such general importance established on.a clear and rational foun dation, and treated as a science, capable Of demon stration, and not a myterious art, as some authors, themselves, have thought proper to term it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.