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Uses relations between quantities and their rates of change to address tangents and quadrature, including a method for deriving rate relations from variable relations.
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1666 is the manuscript date and 2011 the online transcription date; neither is a contemporary publication date. Leibniz’s published calculus is retained separately. This entry does not adjudicate priority or later rigorous foundations of analysis.
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Isaac Newton
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Newton: the 1666 tract on fluxions
Uses relations between quantities and their rates of change to address tangents and quadrature, including a method for deriving rate relations from variable relations.
Scientific scope
1666 is the manuscript date and 2011 the online transcription date; neither is a contemporary publication date. Leibniz’s published calculus is retained separately. This entry does not adjudicate priority or later rigorous foundations of analysis.
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Isaac Newton
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