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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 "...
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...