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IN NATURE, vol. xix. p. 196, I see there is a letter respecting the claims of Newton and Leibnitz to the discovery of the differential calculus. In view of any future discussion of this matter it seems to me that the following extract from a letter of Leibnitz to James Bernoulli is worth the consideration of the advocates of both claimants:—
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BOTTOMLEY, J. Leibnitz's Mathematics. Nature 19, 267 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019267a0
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