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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...
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...
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...
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 "...
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...