"John Bernoulli who... learned the analysis of infinites from the writings of Leibnitz, ... advances not only that the method of fluxions did not precede the differential calculus, but that it might have originated from it; and that Newton had not reduced it to general analytical operations in form of an algorithm, till the differential calculus was already disseminated through all the journals of Holland and Germany."

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