Preface

Inconsistencies of punctuation have been corrected silently, but inconsistent spellings such as Roemer, Römer, Rœmer have not been altered. A list of corrected spellings is appended at the end of the book.

>Footnotes have been renumbered consecutively and relocated to the end of the book. A missing footnote marker has been inserted on p.751 after tracking down the original document. A missing negative symbol has been added to an exponent in a formula on p.327.

There is a misleading calculation on p.194 and the table that follows, regarding progressive powers of two: ((2)) is equivalent to (16) which equals 256 not 65,356 as stated, but 2 does equal 65,356.

[sic] has been inserted on p.179 alongside a statement that the alphabet contains 24 letters; however, the statement may well be correct given that it was written in 1704 by a Flemish author and the language is not specified.

THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE.