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“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the famous Postulatum of Euclid, relative to the theory of parallels. This demonstration rested on an obvious paralogism, which appeared as such to everybody; and probably Lagrange also recognised it such during his lecture. For, when he had finished, he put the paper back in his pocket, and spoke no more of it. A moment of universal silence followed, and one passed immediately to other concerns.”

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“The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.”

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Book:Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-dynamics: Embracing the Late Discoveries and Improvements, Digested Into the Form of a Treatise : Being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England
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