Excerpt from The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Vol. 55: July 5th-December 27th, 1851 Mr. Silvester, in his letter to the Times, April 25th, inserted in your No. 1447. Says M. Binet's investigation leaves nothing to be desired in point of vigour of demonstration; the same result has been obtained, after a more compendious method, by two English analysts, the correctness of which I can attest. For the sake of those thinkers who form an intermediate class between those who are incapable of any proof except what a peals directly to the senses, and the e e vated few who can comprehend the form of an analytical investigation, I ofi'er a brief recapitulation of the argument only hinted at in m former letter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.