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Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters : addressed by way of letter to a friend
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1684/5
Heading-title (p.1) reads: Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of particular mineral waters, address'd to his learned friend, Dr. S.L. H3 unsigned (not noted by Fulton). With 11 pp....
Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica, inter celeberrimos praesentis seculi mathematicos
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677); Keill, John (1671-1721); Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von (1646-1716); Royal Society (Great Britain)
1725
A compilation in support of Newton's claim to have preceded Leibniz as inventor of the calculus. Errors in paging: 145-176, 190, numbered 129-160, 109 respectively. "Ad lectorem"(p.l. [2-4]) and "...
Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis regiae in lucem editum: et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Collins, John (1625-1683); Keill, John (1671-1721); Royal Society (Great Britain)
1722
For this second edition, "Ad lectorem"(p.l. [2-4]) and "Recensio libri" (p.[1]-59) were written by Sir Isaac Newton (both formerly ascribed to J. Keill). Newton was also responsible for the changes in...