A Treatise of Fluxions. In Two Books

by Colin Maclaurin

$15,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh: Printed by T.W. and T. Ruddimans, 1742. First edition, a very fine large and thick paper copy, of “the earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods. It stood as a model of rigor until the appearance of Cauchy’s Cours d’Analyse in 1821” DSB . The Treatise was written partly but only partly, see below as a response to the attack on the foundations of the

• Binding: Hardcover

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