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NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-Lines. Translated by John Colson (1680-1760). - John COLSON. ...A Perpetual Comment upon the foregoing Treatise. London: Henry Woodfall for John Nourse, 1736.
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NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series; with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-Lines. Translated by John Colson (1680-1760). - John COLSON. ...A Perpetual Comment upon the foregoing Treatise. London: Henry Woodfall for John Nourse, 1736.
4o (248 x 200 mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut diagrams in text (frontispiece misbound between pages 272-273). ([T]1 and [T]2 misbound between pages 338-339.) Contemporary boards (rebacked in cloth, joints cracked). Provenance: early ink marginalia on a few leaves.
FIRST EDITION. Newton's Methodus fluxionum was originally prepared in 1671, but remained unpublished until this English translation by John Colson. In it he presents a method of determining the magnitudes of finite quantities by the velocities of their generating motions. At the time of its preparation, it was Newton's fullest exposition of the fundamental problem of the calculus, in which he presented his successful general method. It was not published in its original Latin until 1779. Babson/Newton 171; Wallis 232; Norman 1595.
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FIRST EDITION. Newton's Methodus fluxionum was originally prepared in 1671, but remained unpublished until this English translation by John Colson. In it he presents a method of determining the magnitudes of finite quantities by the velocities of their generating motions. At the time of its preparation, it was Newton's fullest exposition of the fundamental problem of the calculus, in which he presented his successful general method. It was not published in its original Latin until 1779. Babson/Newton 171; Wallis 232; Norman 1595.