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I have always represented Fluxions of all... Orders by finite Quantities, the Supposition of an infinitely little Magnitude being too bold a Postulatum for such a Science as Geometry.

— Colin Maclaurin A Treatise on Fluxions (1742)

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The science being now vastly enlarged, and applied with success to philosophy and the arts, it is of greater importance than ever that its evidence be preserved perfect.

A Treatise on Fluxions (1742)

In most of the instances wherein my conclusions did not agree with those given by other Authors, I have not mentioned their names.

A Treatise on Fluxions (1742)

After I saw that so much had been written upon it to no good purpose, I was rather induced to delay the publication of this Treatise, til I could finish my design.

A Treatise on Fluxions (1742)

Though there can be no comparison made betwixt the extent or usefulness of the antient and modern Discoveries in Geometry, yet it seems to be generally allowed that the Antients took greater care, and were more successfull in preserving the Character of its Evidence entire.

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I accommodated my Definition of the Variation of Curvature in Chap. xi. to Sir Isaac Newtons, to prevent mistakes, as I have observed in Article 386, but made no material alteration in any thing else.

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