Table of Contents

Part I. The First Mathematical Annotations 1664–1665: 1. Annotations from Oughtred, Descartes, Schooten and Huygens; 2. Annotations from Viete and Oughtred; 3. Annotations from Wallis; Part II. Researches in Analytical Geometry and Calculus 1664–1666: 1. Early notes on Analytical Geometry; 2. Work on the Cartesian Subnormal; 3. Miscellaneous Problems in Analytical Geometry and Calculus; 4. Normals, Curvature and the Resolution of the General Problem of Tangents; 5. The Calculus Becomes an Algorithm; 6. The General Problems of Tangents, Curvature and Limit-Motion Analysed by the Method of Fluxions; 7. The October 1966 Tract of Fluxions; Part III. Miscellaneous Early Mathematical Researches 1664–1666: 1. Early Scraps in Newton's Waste Book; 2. Early Work in Trigonometry; 3. The Theory and Construction of Equations; 4. Miscellaneous Researches in Arithmetic, Number Theory and Geometry; Appendix

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The bringing together, in an annotated and critical edition, of all the known mathematical papers of Isaac Newton marks a step forward in the publication of the works of this great natural philosopher.