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by you so long, till others carry away the Reputa-
tion that is due to you. I have endeavoured to do you
justice in that point; [illeg] |a|nd am now sorry that I
did not print those two Letters verbatim . < insertion from the bottom of the page > And in a \ wch / Letter to Mr Leibnitz dated 1 Decem.
1676, he mentions the same thing [illeg] Dr Wallis thus
excuses his inserting the said Paragraph [illeg] into his Pre
face \without making a further mention of the Differential calculus/. Calculi Neque Calcul Differentialis vel nomen
audivisse me non memini nisi postquam utrum
Volumen absolverant operæ, erat Præfationis
(præfigendæ) postremum folium sub p |P|relo ejus
typos jam posuerant Typothetæ. Quippe tum me
monuerat amicus quidam harum rerum gnarus
qui peregre fuerat, tum talem methodum in Belgio
prædicari, tum illam cum Newtoni methodo fluxio-
num quasi coincidere. Quod fecit ut (transmotis typis
jam positis) id monitum inseruerit |m|. And in the Letter
which followed hereupon

– – – – Mr Leibnitz at that time. By wch it may appear
that it was then a received notion in England that Mr Newt [ō]
had found the method of fluxions ten years before the said
correspondence between him & Mr Leibnitz or above. < text from f 143v resumes >

The shord |t| Intimation of this matter wch [illeg] |D| r
Wallis inserted into ye Preface of his first Volume
was in these words. In secundo Volumine, (inter alia)
habitur – – – – – – – nihil a nobis dictum esse.

Hereupon the Editors of the Acta Lips. – – – – of \to/ Mr
Leibnitz at that time. And in the year 1699 Dr
Wallis upon publishing th [is] |e| third Volume of his works \by the leave of Mr Leibnitz/
inserted into ye 3d Volume of his works the said
two Letters together wth the \three/ Answers of Mr Leibniz
\found in the Library of Mr Collins &/ dated 27 Aug. 1676 & /&\ 21 Iune 1677 & \ 24 Octob 1676 / 12 Iuly 1677
together with some other L \ & found in the Library of Mr Collins. /

In the same year (A.C. 1699) Mr Fatio,
in his Dissertation on ye Line of the quickest
descent, suggested that Mr Leibnitz . . . . . before
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