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PROF. TAIT has recently given your readers one mathematician's opinion of Leibnitz as a discoverer. The following extract is serviceable in the same direction, while it has the further merit of attesting to the existence of a still later “vestige of presumption” than has yet been referred to. The extract is from a review by M. Bertrand of Dühring's “Kritische Geschichte der allgemeinen Principien der Mechanik” (Berlin, 1873). M. Bertrand says:—
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MUIR, T. Leibnitz's Mathematics. Nature 19, 482–483 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019482c0
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