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... Blake added the following problem which appealed to his curiosity : " P. S. Since this letter was written I rec.d ... Blake's work " neither wants for perspecuity nor ellagance . " Although Simpson appreciated the construction of the ...
... Blake added the following problem which appealed to his curiosity : " P. S. Since this letter was written I rec.d ... Blake's work " neither wants for perspecuity nor ellagance . " Although Simpson appreciated the construction of the ...
Page 55
... Blake had found difficult , one being the thirty - ninth proposition in Newton's Principia , " and the other the eighth problem in the supplement to Simpson's own book on the method of fluxions.8 Newton's method for finding orbits ...
... Blake had found difficult , one being the thirty - ninth proposition in Newton's Principia , " and the other the eighth problem in the supplement to Simpson's own book on the method of fluxions.8 Newton's method for finding orbits ...
Page 133
... Blake's treatment of converging series ; but Simpson was rather slow to answer Blake's communications for he thought that the troublesome affairs in the north with the " Young Pretender's " defeating of the British at Prestonpans ...
... Blake's treatment of converging series ; but Simpson was rather slow to answer Blake's communications for he thought that the troublesome affairs in the north with the " Young Pretender's " defeating of the British at Prestonpans ...
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Abraham de Moivre Algebra Annuities and Reversions answer appeared Application of Fluxions Body Cajori concerning controversy correspondence Curve David Eugene Smith Dear Sir demonstrated Diary Doctrine of Annuities Doctrine of Fluxions Dodson edition eighteenth century Elements of Geometry England equations essay Fluent Francis Blake give given History of Mathematics Honoured Sir Humble Servant Hutton infinite interest John John Landen John Turner Ladies Landen later letter written London Lordship Maclaurin manner Martin Folkes mathe mathematicians Mathematicks matics method of fluxions Moivre Motion Muller nature Newton's method obliged orbit Orders of Fluxions paper plane printed problem proposed publication published pupils Quantity Robert Heath Robert Simson Royal Academy Royal Society says Sciences Second Master Simp solution suppose teach textbooks Theorem theory thing Thomas Simpson thought tion Treatise of Fluxions trigonometry uniform Space uniformly Velocity Woolwich writing written by Simpson