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them leſs attentive and accurate in examining this Edition we now have, whereby it has happened that ſeveral errors, tho' ſome of them groſs enough, have eſcaped their notice from the age in which Theon lived to this preſent time. Upon this account there is ſome ground to hope that the pains we have taken in correcting theſe errors, and freeing the Elements as far as we could from blemiſhes, will not be unacceptable to good Judges who can diſcern when Demonſtrations are legitimate, and when they are not.

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