The method of fluxions and infinite series : with its application to the geometry of curve-lines
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Type of record: Book
Title: The method of fluxions and infinite series : with its application to the geometry of curve-lines
Classmark: BC Sc q/NEW
Creator(s): Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Additional creator(s): Colson, John (1680-1760) (Other)
Related people: Colson, John
Publisher: Printed by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John Nourse
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1736
Language: English
Size and medium: iv, ix-xxiv, 144, [143]-339 p, [1] leaf of plates (front.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286483
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002281739705181
Description
An unfinished posthumous work, first published in the Latin original in v. 1 of the Opera omnia (Londini, J. Nichols, 1779-85) under title: Artis analyticae specimina, vel Geometria analytica. Another translation, without Colson's commentary, appeared London, 1737 as A treatise on the method of fluxions and infinite series.
The commentary consists of annotations on the introduction, and on the first and second problems.
Page [1] at end is blank.
Pagination slightly irregular.
With an unnumbered errata (advertisement on verso); a contents leaf numbered 143-144; and a divisional half-title following p. 140.
Indexed in: Gray 232; Babson 171.
Additional description
Lacks blank leaf at beginning errata leaf (with advertisement on verso) bound in after sig. A2 frontispiece bound to face p. 273. With armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex
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