Mathematics · History & Philosophy of Mathematics
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The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz
J. M. Child · 1920
Translates Leibniz's working notebooks from 1673 to 1677 and argues from their dated content that Leibniz arrived at the differential and integral…
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The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series
Isaac Newton (trans. John Colson) · 1736
Sets out Newton's own account of calculus in terms of continuously flowing quantities and their instantaneous rates of change, the version of the…
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J. M. Child
Translates Leibniz's working notebooks from 1673 to 1677 and argues from their dated content that Leibniz arrived at the differential and integral calculus independently of, and partly before, Newton published his own method.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Isaac Newton (trans. John Colson)
Sets out Newton's own account of calculus in terms of continuously flowing quantities and their instantaneous rates of change, the version of the method he had withheld from publication for decades before Leibniz's rival account appeared in print.
link checked 17 Sept 2026A. Rupert Hall
Reconstructs the Newton-Leibniz calculus dispute from the correspondence and the rigged 1712 Royal Society report, arguing the quarrel was driven as much by wounded national and personal pride as by any real doubt about who invented what.