What are some of the oldest books available on Calculus? I'm curious to see how the old teaching and explanatory styles compare to modern ones.
Oldest books on Calculus
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You mean like Newton's "Method of Fluxions"?
Or perhaps de l'Hospital's "Analyse des infiniment petits"?
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1Apologies for my bad grammar. I more or less meant "how the ideas were outlined." I wanted to compare the differences between how Calculus was originally _explained_ to how it's explained today. – 2012-01-19
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Wikipedia lists these important publications in calculus
Edit: Related is this link that has a reference on history of calculus
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1@SubtleArray Please note I have added another link you may find useful which includes C.B.Boyer's book – 2012-01-19
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The wiki article doesn't seem to mention Isaac Barrow's Lectiones Geometricae (1669); which Morris Kline says is "one of the great contributions to the calculus". This should be a good example of how the old thinking differs, as it uses geometrical arguments rather than analytical.
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1http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1095218 – 2012-01-19