BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEWTON 



To show that the difference only lies in the mode of expressing the work in English, I 

 give the first paragraph of the work from both editions printed side by side : 



1736 



Having observed that most of our 

 modern Geometricians, neglecting the 

 Synthetical Method of the Ancients, 

 have apply'd themselves chiefly to the 

 cultivating of the Analytical Art ; by 

 the assistance of which they have been 

 able to overcome so many and so great 

 difficulties, that they seem to have ex- 

 hausted all the Speculations of Geo- 

 metry, excepting the Quadrature of 

 Curves, and some other matters of a 

 like nature, not yet intirely discuss'd : 

 I thought it not amiss, for the sake of 

 young Students in this Science, to com- 

 pose the following Treatise, in which I 

 have endeavour'd to enlarge the Boun- 

 daries of Analyticks, and to improve 

 the Doctrine of Curve-lines. 



1737 



Having observ'd that most of our 

 modern Geometricians neglecting the 

 synthetical Method of the Ancients, 

 have applied themselves chiefly to the 

 analytical Art, and by the Help of it 

 have overcome so many and so great 

 Difficulties, that all the Speculations of 

 Geometry seem to be exhausted, except 

 the Quadrature of Curves, and some 

 other things of a like Nature which are 

 not yet brought to Perfection. To this 

 end I thought it not amiss, for the sake 

 of young Students in this Science, to 

 draw up the following Treatise : wherein 

 I have endeavoured to enlarge the 

 Boundaries of Analyticks, and to make 

 some Improvements in the Doctrine of 

 Curve Lines. 



Treatise of the Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, with its 

 application to the Geometry of Curve Lines. Translated. Lon- 

 don, 1738. 8vo. [235 



Translation : 



La Mdthode des Fluxions et des suites infinies par M. le Chevalier 

 Newton. A Paris, chez De Bure 1'aine, Libraire, Quay des 

 Augustins, a Saint Paul, 1/40. 4to. [236 



Collation : Title ; Preface, iii xxx ; Errata, i If. ; Privilege du Roy, i If. ; 

 La Mdthode, i 148. Sigs. a, e, i, d in 4's + i If. + A S in 4*3, 

 T in 2. 



"Extrait des Registres de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences, du 23 Decembre, 1738: 

 Messieurs Maupertuis & Clairaut qui avoient etc nommes pour examiner la Traduction d'un 

 Traite Anglois de M. Newton sur la Methode des Fluxions, par M. du Buffon, en ayant fait 

 leur rapport, la Compagnie a juge que cet excellent Ouvrage meritoit un Traducteur aussi 

 intelligent ; en foi de qui j'ai signe le present Certificat. A Paris ce 21. Mai. 1740. Fonte- 

 nelle, Sec. Perp. de 1'Ac. Roy. des Sc." 



From this ' Extrait ' it will be seen that this translation was done by George Louis Le 

 Clerc, Count de Buffon. 



