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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 15, 2
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Videtur Neutonus occasionem nactus serierum opus multum promovisse per
Extractiones Radicum, quas primus in usum adhibuit, et quidem in iis excolendis ut berisimile
est ab initio omne suum studum posuit, nec credo tunc temporis vil simniavit adhuc 
cagitasse de calculo suo fluxionum et fluentium, vet de reductione ejus ad
generales Operationes Analyticas, ad instar,
conitorithmi, vel regularum Arithme
ticarum aut Algebraicarum. Ejusque meae
primum validissimum indicium
est, quod de literis punctatis X, X, X; y, y, ete. quas pro dx, ddx
ete
d3x, dus, ddy, nunc adhibet, in omnibus istis Epistolis ( commercii
Epistolici collinsiani unde argumenta ducere volunt) nec volam
ex
nec vestigium invenias; imo ne quidem in Principiis natura
aut notam hujusmodi unicam cernere licet; sed omnia fere
non ipsi tantum, sed et Hugenio, uno jam antea (in nonnullis
dedu dudum Porricelib, Robervallio, Fermatio, Cavallerio
prima vice hae literae punctata
comparuerunt in tertio volumine operum Wallisii, multis
annis possquam calculus differentialis jam ubique locorum
l
conjicere licet calculum fluxionum non fuisse natum ante
e
calculum differentialem hoc est, quod veram rationem fluxtest
e
fluxionum capiendi, hoc est differentiandi differentialia
S
as
N
utonus pondum cognitam. habuenit, quod patet ex
iptis princip. phit. math. ubi montantum incrementum constans ipsius X, Quod nunc
ere dnncipiorum equs an nea
categradu
netaret par X ntasum punasum uno pen puncto, designat per otore vulgurius
sed etiam regulam circa
dit ese
q
gradus ulterioris
m apparet
cosam dediti . haltem
apparet se cotono rectam Methodum differentiandi diferentialia
Et
non innotuisse, longo tempore postquam aliis fuisset familiars.
c
quodam Madlemit Co dudo
notatume
en
E
in quicalculi digenem
 tialis commoda
destruit
ud
=
mathematicis Newtoni, ubi calculo suo fluxionum utendi tam ajunt, qemta
sequentem habuisset occasionem ejus vel verbulo sit mentio
per lineas figurarum, sine certa analysi, ibi peraguntur, more
aliis lat usitato.
a invaluisset.
terionas alla
ete
3.
 5. F vi L CF. Y
quamdomodum no empe
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