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was anonymous. In it no mention is macie of 

 Colson's edition. The anonymous translator says 

 in the preface : ' * We have reason to believe that 

 what is here delivered, is wrought up to that Fer- 

 fection in which Sir Isaac himself had once intended 

 to give it to the Publick. The ingenious Dr. 

 Pemberton has acquainted us that he had once pre- 

 vailed upon him to complete his Design and let 

 it come abroad. But as Sir Isaac's Death un- 

 happily put a stop to that Undertaking, I shall 

 esteem it none of the least Advantages of the 

 present Publication, if it may prove a means of 

 exciting that Honourable Gentleman, who is 

 possessed of his Papers, to think of communicating 

 them to some able Hand ; that so the Piece may at 

 last come out perfect and entire." As remarked 

 by G. J. Gray,^ the two translations were made 

 *'from copies of the same manuscript," and differ 

 from each other only "in the mode of expressing 

 the work in English. " 



James Smith ^ ^717 



155. In his New Treatise of Fluxions,^ Smith 

 says (Preface) : '' What I cali here the New Method, 

 and the Six Propositions immediately following, 



^ A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton. By George 

 J. Gray. Second edition, Cambridge, 1907, p. 47. 



2 A New Treatise of Fhixions, containitig, I. The Elements of 

 Fluxions, demonstrated in Two easy Propositions, without first or last 

 Ratios, IL A Treatise of Nascent and Evanescent Quantities, first and 

 last Ratios, III. Sir Isaac Newton s Detnonsiration of the Tluxions 

 enlarged and illustrated : IV. Ansiucrs to the Principal Ohjections in 

 the Analyst. By James Smith, A.M., London, 1737. 



