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[BERKELEY (GEORGE)] The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, FIRST EDITION, J. Tonson, 1734
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[BERKELEY (GEORGE)]
The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, FIRST EDITION, lacking errata leaf G8, title with ink identification of author and of the Infidel as Edmund Halley, light browning, modern half calf, spine sunned [ESTC T21863; Keynes 32], 8vo, J. Tonson, 1734
Footnotes
"Berkeley is known for his attacks on Newton's calculus, and The Analyst was the first of several publications containing his arguments that the calculus had weak foundations. These arguments helped instigate work on making the foundations more rigorous by others such as Colin Maclaurin and the Bernoullis" (Cynthia J. Huffman, 'Mathematical Treasure: George Berkeley's The Analyst,' Convergence, July 2017).
Provenance: Acquired from Dawsons of Pall Mall, 11 July 1963; by descent.