GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVE (DIMENSIONAL WORD SYMBOLISM )

• Dimensions are of a four-fold difference.
  • The least of Magnitudes, so styled by those who write de Indivisibilibus, as being in their account infinitely little.
    • 1. POINT, Prick, Tittle, Punctilio, Ace, Iot, Whit.
  • The second kind, described by the flux of a point, or composed of infi∣nite such points, is styled.
    • 2. LINE, delineate, rule.
  • The third, described by the draught of a line, or composed of infinite such lines.
    • 3. SUPERFICIES, Plain, Surface. To which may be annexed, that more particular notion of Superficies, called AREA, Plot; Bed, Page.
  • The fourth, described by the lifting up a Superficies, or composed of infi∣nite Superficies.
    • 4. SOLID, Body, Bulk.

By these may be express'd those Algebraical notions of Absolute, Line∣ary, Quadratic, Cubic; and so, continuing this Table, Quadrato-Quadratic, Quadrato-Cubic, Cubo-Cubic, Quadrato-Cubo-Cubic, &c. as far as one pleases.