Mr. Hobbes was wont to say that had Des Cartes kept himselfe wholy to geometrie that he had been the best geometer in the world.
Sir Henry Savill sent for him and made him his geometrie professor.
The Elements of Geometrie of the most ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (London, 1570), Note to the Reader.
Wallis then indicates in the 1659 edition of Descartes' Geometrie where the subjects treated on the first six pages are found in the writings of earlier algebraists, particularly of Harriot and Oughtred.
The Geometrie of Descartes is not sufficiently familiar to me, although with Oughtred I am fairly familiar.
No trace of the Englishman's symbolism has been pointed out in Descartes' Geometrie of 1637.
We have seen no indication that Oughtred was familiar with Descartes' Geometrie of 1637.
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