FROM
THE INVENTION OF PRINTING TO THE
PRESENT TIME
BEING
BRIEF NOTICES OF A LARGE NUMBER OF WORKS
DRAWN UP FROM ACTUAL INSPECTION
BY
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,
FELLOW OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.
“Much surprised, no doubt, would the worthy man have been,
had any one told him that two hundred years after his death,
when no man alive would think his ideas on the nature of
mathematics worth a look, the absence of better materials
would make his list of arithmeticians not only valuable,
but absolutely the only authority on several points.”
—DUBLIN REVIEW, No. XLI.
LONDON
TAYLOR AND WALTON
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
28 UPPER GOWER STREET
1847