LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. "Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus, quae nec fractas, nec irrationales quantitates moratur, & singulare pro illis calculi genus" pp. 467-473. [In:] Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIV [-Anno MDCLXXXV]. Leipzig: Christopher Günther for Johann Gross, 1684.

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LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. "Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus, quae nec fractas, nec irrationales quantitates moratur, & singulare pro illis calculi genus" pp. 467-473. [In:] Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIV [-Anno MDCLXXXV]. Leipzig: Christopher Günther for Johann Gross, 1684.

Volume III, 4o (195 x 160 mm). 14 engraved plates. (Light browning.) Contemporary vellum.

[With:] Acta Eruditorum. Leipzig: Christopher Günther for Johann Gross, 1686, 1687, 1690, 1691, 1694 -- Nova Acta Eruditorum. Leipzig: J. Gleditsch and Heirs of B. Lanck, 1748 and Leipzig: Heirs of B. Lanck and M. Blochberger, 1749. Volumes V, VI, IX, X, XIII and two vols. of the New Series. Numerous plates. Contemporary vellum.

THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS. The Acta eruditorum was established in imitation of the Journal des Savans in 1682 in Berlin. Leibnitz contributed regularly. See lot 89. Dibner Heralds of Science 109; Grolier/Horblit 66a; Norman 1326; PMM 160. (6)

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