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Fluxions. A Large Paper Edition was also printed on thick paper. 

 4to. [233 



* I gladly embraced the opportunity that was put into my hands, of publishing this post- 

 humous Work, because I found it had been composed with that view and design. And that 

 my own Countrymen might first enjoy the benefit of this publication, I resolved upon giving 

 it in an English Translation, with some additional Remarks of my own. 



The learned Dr. Pemberton . . . had once a design of publishing the Work, with the 

 consent and under the inspection of the Author himself . . . But since the Author's Death, 

 as the Doctor informs us, prevented the execution of that design, and since he has not thought 

 fit to resume it hitherto, it became needful that this publication should be undertaken by 

 another, tho' a much inferior hand.' Cohorts Preface. 



Colson's Commentary consists of Annotations on the Introduction, and on the First and 

 Second Problems. 



A | Treatise | of the | Method of Fluxions | and | Infinite Series, | With 

 its Application to the Geometry | of Curve Lines. | By Sir Isaac 

 Newton, Kt. | Tranflated from the Latin Original not yet | pub- 

 lished. Defigned by the Author for the Ufe of Learners. Hac 

 via infiftendum est. \ London : | Printed for T. Woodman at Cam- 

 den's Head in New Round Court in the Strand ; and J. Millan 

 next to | Will's Coffee Houfe at the Entrance into Scotland- Yard. \ 

 MDCCXXXVII. | 8vo. [234 



Collation: Title, Preface pp. iii xiv, Contents 2 pp. + (i) (8), 9 180, 

 +- Errata i p. Sigs. A, a, B Ab 4 (the last If. blank). 4 folding 

 tables, i at p. 137, 3 at p. 138. 



' We have reason to believe that what is here delivered, is wrought up to that Perfection 

 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 prevailed upon him 

 to complete his Design and let it come abroad. But as Sir Isaac's Death unhappily put a 

 stop to that Undertaking, I shall esteem it none of the least Advantages of the present Pub- 

 lication, 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. ' Preface. 



The Preface contains 'a short View of the Body of the Work.' 



These editions are translations by two different persons from copies of the same manu- 

 script. It is worth noting that the translator of the 1737 work does not mention Colson's 

 edition, which had been issued only a very short time previous to his. 



