DSB, VIII, 609-611 & DSB, X, 571-572 ; Norman, 1408 (for the first edition 1742).<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the French translation by Father Esprit P\u00e9zenas (1692-1776).<\/span><\/p>\n “In the Treatise<\/i> Maclaurin tried to provide a geometrical framework for the doctrine of fluxions; in this way he hoped to refute his critics, the most vociferous of whom was George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyn\u201d (DSB).<\/p>\n “Maclaurin published his Treatise of fluxions<\/i>, in which he attempted to establish the rigor of the calculus using the geometrical methods favored by Newton. The Treatise<\/i> is noteworthy for its solutions to a number of problems in geometry, statics and the theory of attractions; its presentation of “Maclaurin’s test” for convergence of infinite series; its elaboration, using Euclidean geometry, of many of the principles stated in Newton’s Principia<\/i>; its presentation of the first correct theory for distinguishing between maximum and minimum values of a function; and its discussion of the attraction of an ellipsoid on an internal point, in which Maclaurin proved that the oblate spheroid is an equilibrium shape for a fluid of uniform density under constant angular rotation” (Norman)<\/p>\n “The earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods. It stood as a model of rigor until the appearance of Cauchy’s Cours d’Analyse<\/i> in 1821″ (DSB)<\/p>\n Esprit P\u00e9zenas translated numerous works by eminent English scientists into French, notably works on optics and mathematics, and thus played an important role in the dissemination of English scientific concepts.<\/p>\n Very good, untrimmed, copy with full margins ; slightly foxed or occasionally dusty. It is complete with the required 30 plates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 volumes 4to (273 x 210 mm) XVI, LI, 44 pp., 2 nn.ll. (errata), 18 engraved folding plates for volume I; VIII, 322 pp., 3 nn.ll. (errata, privilege), 12 engreaved folding plates for volume II. Original wrappers, in modern half blue morocco clamshell boxes (spines of wrappers consolidated in cloth at an early stage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1330],"class_list":{"0":"post-86861","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-mathematics","8":"pa_auteur-maclaurin-colin-2","9":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Colin MACLAURIN","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1749","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n