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Excerpt from Elements of Mechanical Philosophy, Vol. 1: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on That Science; Including Dynamics and Astronomy
This is a {hort way of writing A za B 5, in which A and a are fucceflive values of one changeable magni-o itude, and B, 5, the correfponding or fimultaneou's values' of the other. In this fymbol, a and 5 may be magnitudes of difi'erent kinds, which cannot hold with refpeet to the fymbol a 5, becaufe there is no proportion between' magnitudes of different kinds, as between a yard and a pound, an hour and a force, 8m. This may be called the fymbol of a proportional equation.
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