, or Zetetic Method, in Mathematics, was the method made use of to investigate, or find out the solution of a problem; and was much the same thing as analytics, or the analytic method.
Vieta has an ingenious work of this kind in 5 books; Zeteticorum libri quinque.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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