Lot 6
Newton, Sir Isaac
A Treatise of the Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series
The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician
Auction: 23 October 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
with its Application to the Geometry of Curve Lines. Translated from the Latin Original not yet published. London: for T. Woodman; and J Millan, 1737. 8vo in half-sheets (19.8 x 11.7cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, twin gilt fillet rules to spine-compartments and covers, edges sprinkled red, xiv [2] 189 pp., 4 folding letterpress tables, diagrams in text [ESTC T18660; Babson 171; Wallis 234]
Footnote
Second edition, a year after the first, no other copy traced in auction records. Both editions are different translations of the same manuscript, the present translation being anonymous and curiously not mentioning John Colson's version of the previous year. The work was finished by Newton shortly before his death and the manuscript entrusted to Henry Pemberton, who never published it himself.