(NEWTON).

ACTA ERUDITORUM ANNO MDCCV - (REVIEW OF NEWTON'S TRACTATUS DE QUADRATURA CURVARUM).

Leipzig: Gross & Fritsch, 1705. 4to. Original boards. Some foxing throughout. 596 pp. and 10 engraved folding plates.

First edition. This volume contains a review of Newton's 'Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum' (On the Quadrature of Curves). Newton published the first full exposition of his theory of fluxions as an appendix to his 'Opticks' in 1704 under the title 'Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum'. An interesting paper in the history of the the Leibniz-Newton controversy.

Order-nr.: 36945