Excerpt from Bibliography on the Polemic Problem: What Is the Value
To determine the point towards which an infinite descending series of triangles tend to a final term, being the limit of that segment of spiral which is the evolute of the quarter-circle.
To show the relations of lines representing the third root of quan tities which are to each other as one and two, and the angle of the radius with the spiral which results from constructing the equation of the two mean proportionals.
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