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2-5-2012
Abstract
"Though the De Methodis results, for its essential structure and content, from a re-elaboration of a previous unfinished treatise composed in the Fall of 1666—now known, after Whiteside, as The October 1666 tract on fluxions ([22], I, pp. 400-448)—, the introduction of the term ‘fluxion’ goes together with an important conceptual change concerned with Newton’s understanding of his own achievements. I shall argue that this change marks a crucial step in the origins of analysis, conceived as an autonomous mathematical theory."
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Panza, Marco. “From Velocities to Fluxions.” Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays. Ed. Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 219–254. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994845.012
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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser (Eds.), Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays. This version may not exactly replicate the final published version.