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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
. ♀
♀ 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.
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
Ianuary 1705