Re: [HM] QED

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@chasque.apc.org)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:14:29 -0200

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Samuel S. Kutler wrote:

| After Proposition VII of book one, since it is a problem, Newton
| writes Q.E.I. for that which was to have been found.

Not always with that meaning! For instance, at the end of corollary I
(Pt I, Bk I) of _Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus_ ["Euclid vindicated
from all blemish"], Gerolamo Saccheri closes his sentence with:

"Quod erat intentum" [What was asserted].

In certain translations of the same page, the expression "quod erat
intentum" is abbreviated as Q.E.I.

--JGC