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Add. MS a/206/58
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Letter from John Moore Heath
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- [1 Feb. 1837?] (Production)
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3 pp
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JMH's [Trinity College, Assistant Tutor] criticism of WW's work [possibly his Mechanical Euclid, 1837]: 'Your manner of treating of geometry I think admirable, but your self-evident mechanics stagger me as yet I confess'. JMH thinks that it would help WW's argument if he showed that by purely he did not mean syllogistically only: 'We rest upon the idea of space for many new necessary conclusions long after we have settled the axioms'. He cannot admit the equation of a lever as axiomatic. Similarly, 'everybody knows practically that all bodies have a centre of gravity; but not axiomatically'.