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‘I could no more write such a paper than an article on Fluxions.’
New Grub Street 2003
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He published a French translation of Stephen Hales's _Vegetable Statics_ in 1735, and of Sir I. Newton's _Fluxions_ in 1740.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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His treatise on _Fluxions_ prepared the way for that wonderful mathematical, labor-saving instrument -- the differential calculus.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Introduction (An) to the Doctrine of Fluxions and Defence of the
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Mathematics up to Fluxions; Mensuration up to Astronomy; Geography.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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Fluxions to a good extent, Newton's Principia to the end of the 9th section.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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At this time, the use of Differential Calculus was just prevailing over that of Fluxions (which I had learnt).
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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Cartesian method of treating geometry, and his own method of Fluxions.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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Found out a method of infinite series in 1665, and began the invention of Fluxions.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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The Theory of Fluxions; or, the Differential Calculus.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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