WOODHOUSE, Robert. The Principles of Analytical Calculation, Cambridge: University Press, 1803. 4° (very lightly browned throughout), contemporary half calf (covers detached, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. "...Woodhouse defended analytic methods, the differential notation, and a theory of calculus based, like that of Lagrange, on series expansions" (DSB).

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WOODHOUSE, Robert. The Principles of Analytical Calculation, Cambridge: University Press, 1803. 4° (very lightly browned throughout), contemporary half calf (covers detached, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. "...Woodhouse defended analytic methods, the differential notation, and a theory of calculus based, like that of Lagrange, on series expansions" (DSB).

WOODHOUSE, Robert. A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations, Cambridge: J. Smith, 1810. 8°, woodcut diagrams (lacking gathering H but supplied in neat facsimile, occasional light spotting), contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. The earliest English work on this subject.

With the same author's A Treatise on Astronomy, theoretical and practical (Cambridge, 1823, pts. I & II of vol. I only). (4)

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