Text of The `Fluxions Scholium' in Earlier Editions

In the first edition of the Principia the text of the Scholium to Lemma II, Book Two of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica differed from that in the 3rd edition, and read as follows:

In litteris quæ mihi cum Geometra peritissimo G. G. Leibnitio annis abhinc decem intercedebant, cum significarem me compotem esse methodi determinandi maxima & minima, ducendi Tangentes, & similia peragendi, quae in terminis surdis æque ac in rationalibus procederet & literis transpositis hanc sententiam involventibus. (Data æqatione quotcumque fluentes quantitates involvente, Fluxiones invenire, & vice versa) eamdem celarem; Rescripsit Vir Clarissimus se quoque in ejusmodi methodum suam communicavit a mea vix abludentem præterquam in verborum & notarum formulis, & idea generationis quantitatum. Utriusque fundamentum continetur in hoc Lemmate.

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