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Newton, Isaac5
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)5
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Bon, Ottaviano2
Bon, Ottaviano (1552-1623)2
Greaves, John2
Greaves, John (1602-1652)2
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Keill, John (1671-1721)2

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Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford: many of which are now first published (v.1)

Greaves, John (1602-1652); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Greaves, John (1602-1652); Greaves, John (1602-1652); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); Bon, Ottaviano (1552-1623)

1737

Paging irregular; volumes paginated consecutively. Greaves, in his dedication, wrongly attributes "A description of the grand seignor's seraglio" to its translator, Robert Withers; actually by Ottav...

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Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford: many of which are now first published (v.2)

Greaves, John (1602-1652); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Greaves, John (1602-1652); Greaves, John (1602-1652); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); Bon, Ottaviano (1552-1623)

1737

Paging irregular; volumes paginated consecutively. Greaves, in his dedication, wrongly attributes "A description of the grand seignor's seraglio" to its translator, Robert Withers; actually by Ottav...

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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...

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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 "...

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Historia fluxionum : sive Tractatus originem & progressum peregregiae istius methodi brevissimo compendio (et quasi synopticè) exhibens

Raphson, Joseph (1715); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727); Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von (1646-1716)

1715

Second issue of the first edition, with pp. 97-123 (sigs. Cc-Ii) added. These pages give the correspondence between Newton and Leibniz and their friends, in 1715 and 1716, along with other material be...

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