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The method of fluxions and infinite series; : with its application to the geometry of curve-lines

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An unfinished posthumous work, first published in the Latin original in v. 1 of the Opera omnia (Londini, J. Nichols, 1779-85) under title: Artis analyticae specimina, vel Geometria analytica. Another translation, without Colson's commentary, appeared London, 1737 as A treatise on the method of fluxions and infinite series.

The commentary consists of annotations on the introduction, and on the first and second problems.

Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Page [1] at end is blank.

With an unnumbered errata (advertisement on verso); a contents leaf numbered 143-144; and a divisional half-title following p. 140.

Gray, G.J. Newton, 233

ESTC T18629

Babson Institute Library. Newton, p. 48

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01/01/1736
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