fluxions

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Craig is known in the early history of fluxions, and was a good mathematician.

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  • That's what his fluxions were, a new mathematical notation for the wave nature of reality itself. —  AnalogSFF,October2007
  • Craig is known in the early history of fluxions, and was a good mathematician. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • He wrote a work on fluxions (1706). —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • In these ten years, fluxions, rheumatisms, and the other members of that troublesome family will take two or three of them; let us try to economise the seven that are left, for the repose and the small happinesses that a man may promise himself on the wrong side of sixty." —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
  • Hippocrates also held the theory of fluxions, which were conditions in the nature of congestion, as it would now be understood In his time public opinion condemned dissection of the human body, but it is certain that dissections were performed by Hippocrates to a limited extent. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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