TABLE OF CONTENTS 



VII 



CHAPTER VI 

 Maclaurin's "Treatise OF Fluxions, 1742" 



Remarks 



CHAPTER VII 



TEXT-BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY 



John Stewart, 1745 .... 



William Emerson, 1743 (?), 1757, 1768 



Thomas Simpson, 1750 



Nicholas Saunderson, 1756 



John Rowning, 1756 



Israel Lyons, 1758 



William West, 1762 



James Wilson, 1761 



Remarks . 



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CHAPTER Vili 



Robert Heath and Friends of Emerson in Controversy 

 wiTH John Turner and Friends of Simpson 



Robert Heath 



Main articles in the controversy . 

 Ladies' Diary^ 1751, 1752. 

 Popular impression of the nature of fluxions 

 Remarks ....... 



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CHAPTER IX 

 Abortive Attempts at Arithmetisation 



