Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Vol. 2 History of the Infinitesimal Calculus - Archimedes - Pappus - Napier - Ed ward Wright - Kepler's Treatise on Stereometry - Cavalieri's Geometria Indivisibilium - Roberval - Toricelli - Fermat - Wallis's Arithmetica In finito - Hudde - Gregory - Slusius - Newton's Discovery of Fluxions in 16 gal-general Account of the Method, and of its Applications - His Analysis per Equationes, &c. - His Discoveries communicated to English and Foreign Mathematicians - The Method of Fluxions and Quadratures __account of his other Mathematical writings - He solves the Problems proposed by Bernoulli and leibnitz_leibnitz visits London, and corre Sponds with the English Mathematicians, and with Newton through Oldenburg - He discovers the Differential Calculus, and communicates it to Newton - Notice of Oldenburg - Celebrated Scholium respecting Fluxions in the Principia - Account of the changes upon it_leibnitz's Manuscripts in Hanover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.