LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis,"

pp. 467-73 & one plate, in Acta Eruditorum (1684). Engraved plates (many folding). 5 p.l., 591, [7] pp. Thick 4to, cont. vellum (some browning as is usual). Leipzig: C. Günther, 1684. First printing of this epochal work. “The controversy with Newton on priority of invention of the calculus does not detract from the superiority of Leibniz’s method of notation, one retained in modern use. He applied his new method to the solution of the cubic parabola and the inverse methods of tangents and many problems left unsolved by Descartes. Fifteen years after Newton’s first work in fluxions and nine after his own independent discovery, Leibniz published the above, his first announcement of the differential calculus.”–Dibner, Heralds of Science, 109. The controversy between Newton and Leibniz over priority of the invention of calculus is one of the most famous in the history of science. Fine copy. ❧ Evans, First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 7. Horblit 66a. Printing & the Mind of Man 160. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 130 & plate.

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