A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Name: A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
Author: Augustus De Morgan

by Augustus De Morgan

Year: 1872
Field: Mathematics
Licence: Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
Source: gutenberg
Length: about 146,844 words in 158 sections

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(1872)

It is not without hesitation that I have taken upon myself the editorship of a work left avowedly imperfect by the author, and, from its miscellaneous and discursive character, difficult of completion with due regard to editorial limitations by a less able hand.

Had the author lived to carry out his purpose he would have looked through his Budget again, amplifying and probably rearranging some of its contents. He had collected materials for further illustration of Paradox of the kind treated of in this book; and he meant to write a second part, in which the contradictions and inconsistencies of orthodox learning would have been subjected to the same scrutiny and castigation as heterodox ignorance had already received.

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BY AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN · A BUDGET OF PARADOXES · REPRINTED WITH THE AUTHOR'S ADDITIONS FROM THE ATHENAEUM · SECOND EDITION EDITED BY DAVID EUGENE SMITH · WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST NAGEL · PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY · UNABRIDGED EDITION--TWO VOLUMES BOUND AS ONE · 2 words
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., NEW YORK · 5 words
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. · 623 words
SOPHIA DE MORGAN. · 6 MERTON ROAD, PRIMROSE HILL. · 5 words
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. · 906 words
DAVID EUGENE SMITH. · TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. · 5 words
A BUDGET OF PARADOXES · 1 words
INTRODUCTORY. · 4,762 words
THE EDITORIAL SYSTEM. · 7,537 words
A BUDGET OF PARADOXES. · VOLUME I. · THE STORY OF BURIDAN'S ASS. · 292 words
MICHAEL SCOTT'S DEVILS. · 586 words
PHILO OF GADARA. · 348 words
ON SQUARING THE CIRCLE. · 333 words
BOVILLUS ON THE QUADRATURE PROBLEM. · 269 words
THE STORY OF LACOMME'S ATTEMPT AT QUADRATURE. · 502 words
NICOLAUS OF CUSA'S ATTEMPT. · 76 words
HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. · 196 words
WHICH LEADS TO WALTER SCOTT. · 500 words
FINAEUS ON CIRCLE SQUARING. · 247 words
DUCHESNE, AND A DISQUISITION ON ETYMOLOGY. · 192 words
FALCO'S RARE TRACT. · 271 words
BUNGUS ON THE MYSTERY OF NUMBER. · 281 words
WHICH LEADS TO A STORY ABOUT THE ROYAL SOCIETY. · 490 words
AND ALSO TO A QUESTION OF EVIDENCE. · 229 words
AND TO ANOTHER QUESTION OF EVIDENCE. · 228 words
GIORDANO BRUNO AND HIS PARADOXES. · 877 words
THIS LEADS TO THE CHURCH QUESTION. · 806 words
OF THOMAS GEPHYRANDER SALICETUS. · 546 words
NAPIER ON REVELATIONS. · 266 words
OF GILBERT'S DE MAGNETE. · 91 words
OF GIOVANNI BATISTA PORTA. · 65 words
CATALDI ON THE QUADRATURE. · 214 words
OF LANSBERGIUS. · 39 words
A TEXT LEADING TO REMARKS ON PRESTER JOHN. · 778 words
CONCERNING A TRACT BY FIENUS. · 70 words
ON SNELL'S WORK. · 29 words
ON BACON'S NOVUM ORGANUM. · 2,735 words
ON METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES. · 291 words
BASIS OF MODERN DISCOVERY. · 872 words
THE REAL VALUE OF BACON'S WORKS. · 273 words
THE CONGREGATION OF THE INDEX, ON COPERNICUS. · 1,162 words
THE CONVOCATION AT OXFORD EQUALLY AT FAULT. · 793 words
THE METIUS APPROXIMATION. · 148 words
ON INHABITABLE PLANETS. · 541 words
INHABITED PLANETS IN FICTION. · 400 words
A VENETIAN BUDGET OF PARADOXES. · 219 words
THE CIRCULATING MEDIA OF MATHEMATICS. · 138 words
THE SYMPATHETIC POWDER. · 275 words
HOBBES AS A MATHEMATICIAN. · 218 words
AN ESTIMATE OF SCALIGER. · 604 words
JOHN GRAUNT AS A PARADOXER. · 455 words
MANKIND A GULLIBLE LOT. · 222 words
A FORERUNNER OF A WRITTEN ESPERANTO. · 235 words
GREGOIRE DE ST. VINCENT. · 143 words
RENE DE SLUSE. · 180 words
JAMES GREGORY. · 90 words
BEAULIEU'S QUADRATURE. · 837 words
SIR MATTHEW HALE. · 386 words
ON THE DISCOVERY OF ANTIMONY. · 112 words
ON ALCHEMY. · 780 words
MATHEMATICAL THEOLOGY. · 415 words
THE ARISTOCRAT AS A SCIENTIST. · 303 words
THE LONGITUDE PROBLEM. · 439 words
THE AURORA BOREALIS. · 923 words
DE MORGAN ANAGRAMS. · 327 words
NEWTON'S DE MUNDI SYSTEMATE LIBER. · 370 words
A BACONIAN CONTROVERSY. · 480 words
LOCKE AND SOCINIANISM. · 756 words
TWO FORGOTTEN CIRCLE SQUARERS. · 191 words
THE STEAMSHIP SUGGESTED. · 207 words
THE NEWTONIANS ATTACKED. · 130 words
MATHEMATICAL THEOLOGY. · 149 words
TWO MODEL INDORSEMENTS. · 449 words
THOMAS WRIGHT OF DURHAM. · 162 words
BISHOP HORNE ON NEWTON. · 1,278 words
FALLACIES IN A THEORY OF ANNUITIES. · 688 words
MONTUCLA'S WORK ON THE QUADRATURE. · 722 words
ANTINEWTONIANISMUS. · 120 words
OFFICIAL BLOW TO CIRCLE SQUARERS. · 196 words
AN INTERESTING HOAX. · 281 words
TWO JESUIT CONTRIBUTIONS. · 426 words
BAILLY'S EXAGGERATED VIEW OF ASTRONOMY. · 279 words
SAINT-MARTIN ON ERRORS AND TRUTH. · 1,038 words
A FORERUNNER OF THE METRIC SYSTEM. · 375 words
THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN. · 1,015 words
ATTACKS ON RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS. · 586 words
HONE'S FAMOUS TRIALS. · 2,221 words
THOMAS TAYLOR, THE PLATONIST. · 261 words
A NEW ERA IN FICTION. · 837 words
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. · 1,218 words
A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM FREND. · 1,391 words
A STORY ON SIMSON. · 273 words
BARON MASERES. · 1,586 words
MR. FREND'S BURLESQUE. · 3,811 words
ON YOUTHFUL PRODIGIES. · 939 words
NEWTON AGAIN OVERTHROWN. · 474 words
BISHOPS AS PARADOXERS. · 706 words
THE QUESTION OF PARALLELS. · 186 words
A PATRIOTIC PARADOX. · 360 words
SOME SCIENTIFIC PARADOXES. · 1,040 words
A RELIGIOUS PARADOX. · 1,309 words
SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS. · 1,084 words
WHATELY'S FAMOUS PARADOX. · 440 words
VOLTAIRE A CHRISTIAN. · 516 words
WRONSKI ON THE LONGITUDE PROBLEM. · 233 words
DR. MILNER'S PARADOXES. · 784 words
HERBART'S MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY. · 193 words
ON THE WHIZGIG. · 189 words
SOME MYTHOLOGICAL PARADOXES. · 772 words
A KANTESIAN JEWELER. · 646 words
WALSH'S DELUSIONS. · 1,201 words
GROWTH OF FREEDOM OF OPINION. · 581 words
THE STATUS OF MEDICINE. · 1,317 words
THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY. · 415 words
THE CABBALA. · 555 words
ON GODFREY HIGGINS. · 997 words
ON POPE'S DIPPING NEEDLE. · 232 words
THE JACOTOT METHOD. · 272 words
A DISCOURSE ON PROBABILITY. · 2,311 words
EUCLID WITHOUT AXIOMS. · 328 words
THE LUNAR CAUSTIC JOKE. · 760 words
ON M. DEMONVILLE. · 446 words
PARSEY'S PARADOX. · 447 words
ON A COUPLE OF GEOMETRIES. · 383 words
NEWTON AGAIN OBLITERATED. · 630 words
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. · 350 words
THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC. · 2,036 words
WOODLEY'S DIVINE SYSTEM. · 701 words
ON JOHN FLAMSTEED. · 1,153 words
ON STEVIN. · 405 words
FINLEYSON AS A PARADOXER. · 512 words
ON THEOLOGICAL PARADOXERS. · 1,149 words
AN EARLY METEOROLOGIST. · 1,627 words
THE HERSCHEL HOAX. · 315 words
SOME MORE METEOROLOGY. · 355 words
THE GREAT PYRAMIDS. · 50 words
THE MATHEMATICS OF A CREED. · 422 words
LOGIC HAS NO PARADOXERS. · 3,350 words
SOME DOGGEREL AND COUNTER DOGGEREL. · 630 words
ANOTHER THEORY OF PARALLELS. · 73 words
SOME PRIMITIVE DARWINISM. · 497 words
ON RELIGIOUS INSURANCE. · 521 words
THE TWO OLD PARADOXES AGAIN. · 500 words
THE DUPLICATION PROBLEM. · 349 words
SOME MODERN ASTROLOGY. · 484 words
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST. · 318 words
EASTER DAY PARADOXERS. · 1,022 words
EASTER DAY. · 6,750 words
A COUPLE OF MINOR PARADOXES. · 230 words
SPECULATIVE THOUGHT IN ENGLAND. · 534 words
THE OLD MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. · 1,106 words
THE ASTRONOMER'S DRINKING SONG. · 1,574 words
THE NEW PLANET. · 907 words
ASTRONOMICAL POLICE REPORT. · 868 words
A NEW THEORY OF TIDES. · 473 words
AN ASTRONOMICAL PARADOXER. · 1,266 words
THEISM INDEPENDENT OF REVELATION. · 36,855 words

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

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