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XXXV. Observations on the Introduction of Arabic Numerals into England, addressed to the Earl of Moreton, 1766. By the Rev. Mr. North, of Coddicote, F. A. S. Communicated from some MS Papers of the late Dr. Lort, purchased by Mr. Gough

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The inclosed paper was drawn up at a time when the subject engaged a more general attention among the learned, as long ago as the year 1748, and then designed to have been presented to your lordship's predecessor at the Royal Society, Mr. Folkes, to whom I had the honour of being well known; but, upon my being seized with an afflicting and long illness, which for some years disabled me for all literary enquiries, it lay by forgotten, till a gentleman's shewing some old dates at the Society of Antiquaries, when I was last in town, the memory of it recurred, and my inclination was awakened to search for it.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 363 note [a] 2—14.

page 366 note [b] F. v. 15 in Stanley's Catalogue.

page 368 note ]c] V. 4. Stanley's Catalogue.

page 370 note [d] Phil. Trans. N° 154. p. 399. Wallis on Algebra, p. 12.

page 370 note [e] Mr. Cope, in Phil. Trans. N° 439. p. 119. See Prof. Ward, ib. p. 120.

page 372 note [f] See Professor Ward on it. Phil. Trans. N° 474. p. 79.

page 373 note [g] “Tabula Eclips' folis pro primo Ciclo, cujus principium est an. Christi 1330, cujus autem finis est 1348.” The same figure is put for 4 in the second date, as in the annexed plate.