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

361 LETTERS to me to be really impossible, and they are: that a profound mathematician, reading the treatise with attention, does not realise (at least approximately) the reality of the foundation; and that, after learning of this reality, he does not get wholeheartedly interested in it. It must be said that I am deceiving myself, because I have hitherto found the opposite. Nonetheless, just as I am quite certain on the one hand that the devil is doing, and shall do, anything to hinder such a discovery, and on the other, that God wants it, and not I, in the same way I am sure that God will come out on top despite such and so many obstacles as I have hitherto encountered and continue to encounter. It is necessary, provided that one wants to obtain the goal proposed, that Your Reverence, full of Christian zeal yourself, and of goodness and love for me, is persuaded of what I write in the present letter, so that, either one way or in another, you join the geometrician, whom the examination mainly and substantially concerns. Please do so then, as I entreat you to as much as I can and is possible, as there is not, nor can there be, any other way different from this. Furthermore, I am extremely glad that Your Reverence has received half of the chocolate. It may be that before receiving this letter of mine, another eighteen pounds are delivered to you there, as two pounds have been decimated by an unexpected matter of expediency, to which I have had to succumb. If, then, you have not received them, you will certainly receive them at any moment after the arrival of this letter of mine. Meanwhile, please maintain your love for me and your kind assistance until the end of this endeavour, while I, submitting to Your Reverence and to the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi my most reverent regards, remain as ever Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 26 May 1752 97. Tartini to G.B. Martini It is better for me to explain the fifth proposition myself, and so, God willing, it will be possible to proceed. In the fifth proposition the series of the extremes was demonstrated 2400 4800 20 40 1800 5400 15 45 1440 5760 12 48 1200 6000 equal to 10 50