CHAPTER V 



TEXT-BOOKS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 

 BERKELEY'S ATTACK 



148. The Analyst was published in 1734 ; two years 

 later appeared four books on fluxions. Thus, more 

 British text-books on this subject were published 

 in 1736 than in ali the thirty years preceding. That 

 the Analyst controversy was largely the cause of 

 this increased productivity there can be no doubt. 

 We proceed to give an account of the books which 

 preceded the publication of Maclaurin's Treatise of 

 Fluxions^ 1742. 



John Colson^ 1736 



149. Newton's Method of Fluxions,'^ S3.\d to have 

 been written in 1671, was translated and first 

 published in 1736 by John Colson. Colson had 

 been a student at Christ Church, Oxford, which 

 he left without taking a degree. He was appointed 



^ The Method of Fhixions and Infinite Stries ; with its Application 

 to the (Jeometry of Curz'e- Lines. By the Inventar^ Sir Isaac Newton, Kt., 

 Late Presi dent of the Koyal Society. Translated from the Author^s 

 Latin Originai not yet made puhlick. To which is subjoined, A 

 Perpetuai Commenttipon the Whole Work, . . . By John Colson, M. A. 

 and F. R.S., Master of Sir Joseph Williamson's free Mathematical- 

 School at Rochester. London, M.DCC.XXXVI. This hook was 

 reissued in 1758. 



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