Giuseppe Tartini - Lettere e documenti / Pisma in dokumenti / Letters and Documents - Volume / Knjiga / Volume II

347 LETTERS 90. Tartini to G.B. Martini I did not reply last Friday to your most kind letter, hoping to receive the promised letter on Saturday, including the indications of the obscure points and difficulties that there are in my treatise, so that the examination thereof can be carried out only once. But I have seen nothing, and to prevent the post from leaving once again without writing to you, I inform Your Reverence that the father-preacher is not making the trip by land. He is embarking in Venice and is going to his monastery directly by sea. I am indeed continuing with my enquiries, but on your part please continue to do me this courtesy and favour. We are then more than agreed on the fact that one cannot judge what one does not clearly understand. But I shall also tell you something else, that I am sure there must be some obscure passage, and not just in one place. The cause is clear. There are many new things, and I know for certain that they are new. The path I follow is quite new, and this alone is enough to entangle anybody. Furthermore, I am aware that I sometimes use terms fashioned in my own way, both because I do not know many of those common terms pertaining to the quantitative sciences; and because sometimes they would be of no use to me, even if they were known to me. Therefore, I conclude with Your Reverence and with the Most Esteemed Signor Dottor Balbi that there must be much difficulty in understanding everything. But this difficulty can be explained, and reduced to the utmost clarity, if (as you have wisely thought to do) you will trouble yourselves to send me a note of all the obscure passages, and of those terms which you do not understand well. Please do so then, while, conveying to you my most reverent respects, I remain Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 24 March 1752 91. G.B. Martini to Tartini Bologna on 4 April 1752 Here we are, ready to present to you our objections, which we would like to set out as promptly as we can, in order to immediately send the treatise back to you. If, then, one wishes to call irrational those quantities which can be expressed only by means of lines, it remains to be seen whether these lines will have a common