La methode des fluxions translated

by Georges Louis Le Clerc by Sir Isaac Newton

$3,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: De Bure l’aine, 1740. First edition in French of Newton’s first exposition of his fluxional calculus, translated with a long and important preface by the celebrated naturalist Comte de Buffon. Originally written in 1671, in Latin, this was Newton’s first comprehensive presentation of his method of fluxions which, according to Hall ‘might have effected a mathematical revolution in its own day’

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