Tuesday, July 27, 1638
Sir,
The receipt of your letter in which you do me the honor of promising
your
friendship, gave me no less joy than if I had received it from a
mistress whose
good graces I passionately desired. And your other writings which
preceded
it reminded me of the Bradamante of our poets, who would take no one
as a
servant who had not previously proved himself against her in combat.
It is not every day that I compare myself to that Roger who was the
only
one in the world capable of standing against her in combat;1 but such
as I
am, I assure you that I honor your merit considerably. And seeing the
most
recent method that you used to find tangents to curved lines [in your
last
letter], I have nothing to say in response, other than that it is very
good, and
that, if you had explained it that way in the beginning, I would have
had no
disagreement.
The remainder of the letter deals specifically with geometry, and has
not been
included here.

thus:
AP, you nut....
actually, it is a commonplace hearsay that
the founding parental units were atheists, usually
called Deists -- "I'm the Higher Power of the 13th Step -- ME ?!?"
... but it isn't true. if you read LaRouche, you'd know that, but
there is some question about Shakespeare as a Second Language.

thus:
Apostol begins the course with integration,
as per Liebniz; there's a special name for that, per Liebniz:
primitive equation or prime equation?

thus:
ah, sort of a solopsistic monad. I am reminded
of hte Many Words Interpretation of the Copenhagenskool:
to be or not to be that is the shape of the box or the bubble --
inside or out?

thus:
speaking of Young's anhialation of Newton's photons,
here is the earlier elaboration on light by Fermat:
http://www.wlym.com/~seattle/dynamis/issues/august08-fermat.pdf