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And that in the end of the year 1671 I invented the Method of
extracting fluents out of Equations involving fluxions & at the request
of Dr Wallis sent it to him \in/ [illeg] Septe [illeg] |mb| |er| 1692, & \that/ in the year 1676 I wrote
the book of Quadratures [illeg] (exccept the Introduction & Conclusion) & when
I had finished the 10th Proposition
extracting most of it out of old papers
And & when I had finished tenth Proposition wth its Corollaries & the
composure thereof was fresh in memory I wrote the tenth upon the se
cond Corollar[y] upon
\the Letter about it/ it [sic] to Mr Collins my Letter of \dated/ Octob. 8. 1676 \ wch Mr Iones found amonge his papers &/ published|.| by
Mr Iones
|| And that as I invented the Method of fluxions & the Theory of
Colours in the years 1665 & 1666 [illeg] |&| in the year 1672 |1| was upon a
designe of publishing them, [illeg] but so for a reason mentioned in my Letter of
24 Octob 1676 I forbore [illeg] publishing them till the year 16 1704.
|| And that when I wrote in my Letter of 24 Octob. 1676 that the general
Theremes [sic] there mentioned for squaring of Curves were founded on the
Method of fluxions, I had relation to the method of finding them
described in the six first Propositions of the Book of Quadratures.

|| The Introduction to the Book of Quadratures [where the Method of
fluxions is taught without the use of prickt letters is a demonstra] is
a demonstration that \I did not confine/ the Method of fluxions is not confined to prickt
Letters
\the method of fluxions is taught without pricket Letters & the letter o is used without both in the Introduction & in the Book it self without destroying the advantages of the ✝/ < insertion from the bottom of the page > ✝ the differention Notation, & the Notation by pricks is shorter then that by the
letter d, & the Notation by prik |c|ks & the letter o together is more has more
advantages then that by the letter d < text from f 384v resumes > & the first Proposition \of the Book/ is a demonstration that when I understood
all the degrees of fluxions when I wrote it, & my saying in the In-
troduction that I found the Method gradually in the years 1665 & 1666,
w which has occasioned all this squabble, is not so much as Dr Wallis
affirmed long before \ nine years before long before/ in the Preface to the two first Volumes of his works
without being then contradicted by any body.

And that in the end of the year 1671 I invented the Method
of extracting fluents out of Equations involving fluxions \mentioned in my Letter of 24 Octob. 1676,/ & in the year
1676 I wrote the book fo Quadratures except the Introduction & Con-
clusion extracting most of it out of old Papers|.| & |And| when I wrote in my
Letter of 24 Octob 1676 that the general Theoremes there mentioned
for squaring of Curves were founded on the Method of fluxions, I
had relation to teh method of finding them described in the six
first Propositions of Qua the Book of Quadratures, And that [illeg] \And/ when
I wrote \to Mr Collins/ my Letters of 8 Octob. \Novem./ 1676 to Mr published by Mr Iones
I had newly finished \relation to/ the tenth Proposition of the Book of Quadratures
& had those things \with it [sic] Corollaries wch being then newly written were/ fresh in memory|.| as may be perceived by comparing
the Letter with that Proposition & particularly with the second
Corollary |ie|s thereof with that Letter \it self/ which was writ upon them. And
that I |in| the writi |e| ng the book of Principles I made very gr[e] by the
help of the book of Quadratures
& in the year 1692 my \two/ Letters of
\dated/ Aug 27 & Sep. 17 1692 I sent to Dr Wallis the method of fluxions
described in my the first Proposition of the book of Quadratures & the
method of extracting fluents out of equations involving fluxions \mentioned in my Letter of Octob 24, 1676/ both
which \methods/ t[h] |w|ere printed the next year in the second Volume of the
Doctors works [illeg] |p|ag. 391, 392, 393, 394, 395. And the reaso \And that/ About the
same time that I invented the method of fluxions I invented also the
Theory of Colours vizt in the beginning of the year 167 |6|6 | winter between the years 1665 & 1666, & in the year
1671 I was upon a design of publishing both: but soon after laid aside
my designe [illeg] for a reason mentioned in my Letter of 24 Octob. 1676 [In]
& for the \same reason/ forbore to p [illeg] |u|blish them till the year 1704. And who