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at this time which is reflected in the literature that 

 will be under consideration in the next chapter. 



Both before the time of Berkeley's Analyst and 

 after the time of Maclaurin's Fluxions there appeared 

 in Great Britain texts which superposed British 

 symbols and phraseology upon the older Continental 

 concepts. The result was a system, destitute of 

 scientific interest. Newton's notation was poor and 

 Leibniz's philosophy of the calculus was poor. That 

 result represents the temporary survival of the least 

 flt of both systems. The more recent international 

 course of events has been in a diametrically opposite 

 direction, namely, not to superpose Newtonian 

 symbols and phraseology upon Leibnizian concepts, 

 but, on the contrary, to superpose the Leibnizian 

 notation and phraseology upon the limit-concept, as 

 developed by Newton, Jurin, Robins, Maclaurin, 

 D'Alembert, and later writers. 



