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NEWTON, Isaac. The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its application to the geometry and curve-lines, translated by John Colson, London: printed by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John Nourse, 1736.
4°, engraved frontispiece, numerous diagrams, woodcut headpieces and initials (frontispiece very lightly browned), contemporary calf, blind-stamped border (small waterstain to front cover, a few light scuff marks to rear cover, spine chipped and very rubbed, joints cracked but cords firmly holding).
FIRST EDITION. A clean copy of Newton's Fluxions which was originally prepared in 1671 but remained unpublished until this English translation by John Colston. It is "a key document in the controversy over whether Newton or Leibniz had priority in discovering differential calaculus ... By 1671, Newton was in a position to give his clearest statement to date of the fundamental problem of the calculus, and to present a successful general method" (Norman). The book was published in its original Latin not until 1779. Babson 171; Brunet IV, 50; Norman 1595. Wallis 232.
4°, engraved frontispiece, numerous diagrams, woodcut headpieces and initials (frontispiece very lightly browned), contemporary calf, blind-stamped border (small waterstain to front cover, a few light scuff marks to rear cover, spine chipped and very rubbed, joints cracked but cords firmly holding).
FIRST EDITION. A clean copy of Newton's Fluxions which was originally prepared in 1671 but remained unpublished until this English translation by John Colston. It is "a key document in the controversy over whether Newton or Leibniz had priority in discovering differential calaculus ... By 1671, Newton was in a position to give his clearest statement to date of the fundamental problem of the calculus, and to present a successful general method" (Norman). The book was published in its original Latin not until 1779. Babson 171; Brunet IV, 50; Norman 1595. Wallis 232.