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Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"The writers displayed many geometrical truths before my very eyes, as it were, and derived them by means of logical arguments"
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Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"We can best learn how mental intuition is to be employed by comparing it with ordinary vision."
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Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Moreover, as we said, we should not contemplate, in one and the same visual or mental gaze, more than two of the innumerable different dimensions which it is possible to depict in the imagination."
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