Write to the booksellers1 books for « collins newton l... »Edit
Commercium epistolicum J. COLLINS aliorum De analysi promota, etc ou correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle relative à l'analyse supérieure réimprimée sur l'édition originale de 1712 avec l'indication des variantes de l'édition de 1722, complétée par une collection de pièces justificatives et de documents et publiée par J.B. BIOT et F. LEFORT -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE
P., Mallet-Bachelier, 1856, un volume in 4 relié en demi-toile noire, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure postérieure), 15pp., 293pp., (1)
---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- Babson N° 189 : "The leibnitz-Newton controversy. A very complete compilation covering this famous controversy" ---- "This is the celebrated report drawn up by order of the Royal Society and consisting of a selection from the correspondence of John Collins with some of the most celebrated mathematicians of the time, which was to substantiate Keill's charges against Leibnitz of having derived the fundamental ideas of his calculus from papers by Newton, said to have been communicated to him through Collins and Oldenbrug. Although greatly biased in Newton's favour, the work is nevertheless a repertory of the utmost value to the history of science. It was not until De morgan reviewed the case (1846) that a greater spirit of fairness was shown. Probably both these great men had the same idea independently". (Babson N° 186 1712 london ed.)**7223/K1-7224/?
