Geometria organica: sive descriptio linearum curvarum universalis

by Colin Maclaurin

$8,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: for William and John Innys, 1720. First edition, very rare in commerce, of Maclaurin’s first book, dedicated to Newton and bearing his imprimatur as president of the Royal Society; this is a presentation copy, inscribed by Maclaurin. Maclaurin is best known for his Treatise of Fluxions 1742 , “the earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods. It stood as a model

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