Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. 2

History of the Infinitesimal Calculus - Archimedes - Pappus - Napier - Ed ward Wright - Kepler's Treatise on Stereometry - Cavalieri's Geometria Indivisibilium - Roberval - Toricelli - Fermat - Wallis's Arithmetica In finito - Hudde - Gregory - Slusius - Newton's Discovery of Fluxions in 16 gal-general Account of the Method, and of its Applications - His Analysis per Equationes, &c. - His Discoveries communicated to English and Foreign Mathematicians - The Method of Fluxions and Quadratures __account of his other Mathematical writings - He solves the Problems proposed by Bernoulli and leibnitz_leibnitz visits London, and corre Sponds with the English Mathematicians, and with Newton through Oldenburg - He discovers the Differential Calculus, and communicates it to Newton - Notice of Oldenburg - Celebrated Scholium respecting Fluxions in the Principia - Account of the changes upon it_leibnitz's Manuscripts in Hanover.

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