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Ockham.
Monday Morning
16th ['July' crossed out] Augst
['1841' added by later reader]
Dear Mr De Morgan. I send you today, 1stly:
a paper in which I have proved the Theorem
\( \int fx\frac{dx}{dt}dt=\int fx.dx\) (of pages 102, 103), backward{s.
That is I have assumed \(\int fx.dx\), & deduced
from it that when \(x=\psi t\), then \(\int fx.dx=\int fx\frac{dx}{dt}dt\);
whereas in the book \(\int fx\frac{dx}{dt}dt\) was assumed,
& the process was exactly reversed.
I do not send this as having any advantage
over the other proof. Merely because it happened
accidentally to strike me, & I wrote it down;
& I now ['may' crossed out] enclose it for inspection, to see that I
have correctly deduced each step.
2ndly : I enclose you my Second Paper on ['the' inserted] Accelerating
Force subject. This one is the explanation of
\(S=\int v.dt\)
Tomorrow I hope to send you the one on \(t=\int\frac{ds}{v}\) .
[119v] I hope I am not plaguing you very much.
I am anxious to read up to a certain point
before moving to Devonshire.
Believe me
Yours most truly
A. A. Lovelace
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