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Besides an answer to '... the Author concealed his real name... a…
Quote byColin MacLaurin · 1698–1746
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Preface, Ref: 1), Discourse concerning the Nature and Certainty of Sir Isaac Newton's Methods of Fluxions and of Prime and Ultimate Ratios (1735) 2) Isaac Newton, The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series: with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-lines (1736) Tr. from De Methodis Serierum et F.
English (original)
Besides an answer to '... the Author concealed his real name... a second, by the same hand, in Defense of the first, a Discourse by Mr. Robins, a Treatise of Sir Isaac Newton, with a Commentary by Mr. Colson, and several other Pieces, were published on this Subject.
— Colin MacLaurin
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