And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?


The Analyst (1734), sec. 35


And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite...

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite...

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite...

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite...