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Excerpts from A Treatise of Fluxions

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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Both Volume I and Volume II of Colin Maclaurin's "A Treatise of Fluxions" can now be accessed online via Google Books. (Check out Wolfram's explanation of the term, fluxion.) In what follows, we present selected excerpts from these two books.

Title Pages with Google-Books Links

Volume I (1742)
Volume II (2nd Ed., 1801)

Volume I (1st Ed., 1742)

Volume II (2nd Ed., 1801)

Volume I

Dedication (Acknowledgment) 
Preface 
Introduction1
Book 1 (Of the Fluxions of Geometrical Magnitudes)51
      Chapter I (Of the Grounds of this Method) — §§ 1-7751
      Chapter II (Of the Fluxions of plane rectilineal Figures) — §§ 78-104109
      Chapter III (Of the Fluxions of plane curvilineal Figures) — §§ 105-123131
      Chapter IV (Of the Fluxions of Solids, and of third Fluxions) — §§ 124-139142
      Chapter V (Of the Fluxions of Quantities that are in a continued Geometrical Progression, the first term of which is invariable) — §§ 140-150152
      Chapter VI (Of Logarithms, and of the Fluxions of logarithmic Quantities) — §§ 151-179158
      Chapter VII (Of the Tangents of curve Lines) — §§ 180-214178
      Chapter VIII (Of the Fluxions of curve Surfaces) — §§ 215-237199
      Chapter IX ([Identifying Extrema and Inflection Points] of Curves that are defined by a common or by a fluxional Equation) — §§ 238-285214
      Chapter X (Of the Asymptotes of curve Lines, the Areas bounded by them and …) — §§ 286-362240
      Chapter XI (Of the Curvature of Lines … different kinds of Contact [with other Curves] … Caustics … centripetal Forces …) — §§ 363-304
            · Parabola — §371311
            · Any Conic Section — §373312
            · The Second Fluxion of a Curve — §384324
            · Refraction of Light — §413344
            · Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces — §416346
            · Gravity — §419348
            · Circular Motion — §432356
            · When the Center of Forces is the Focus of a Conic Section — §446370
            · When Gravity is Uniform or Varies as any Power of the Distance — §458383
            · Orbit of the Moon, taking into account the Gravity of both the Earth and the Sun — §471391
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            · Prolate Spheroidal Fluid Figure — §491409
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            · The Earth's Equilibrium Shape — §492410
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      End of Book I, Chapter XI, § 494413


Volume II

Table of Principal Contents (5 pp.) 
Figures (30 pp.) 
Book 1 (continued)1
      Chapter XII (Of the Methods of Infinitesimals …) — §§ 495-5701
            · Centre of Gravity — §51013
            · Of the Collision of Bodies — §51114
            · Of the Descent of Bodies that Act upon One Another — §52127
            · Of the Centre of Oscillation — §53340
            · Of the Motion of Water Issuing from a Cylindric Vessel — §53744
            · Of the Catenaria — §55159
            · General Observations Concerning the Angles of Contact, etc. — §55461
            · General Observations Concerning centripetal Forces, etc. — §56367
      Chapter XIII (Determining the Lines of swiftest Descent in any Hypothesis of Gravity …) — §§ 571-60874
            · When Gravity is Directed Towards a Given Centre — §57880
            · Isoperimetrical Problems — §58888
            · The Solid of Least Resistance — §606100
      Chapter XIV (Of the Ellipse Considered as the Section of a Cylinder … Of the Figure of the Earth …) — §§ 609-101
            · Properties of the Ellipse — §609101
            · Of the Gravitation towards Spheres and Spheroids — §628110
            · Of the Figures of Planets — §636116


Maclaurin's Discussion of

Paragraph and related figure extracted without modification from p. 111 of Colin Maclaurin (1742)

"A Treatise of Fluxions"

Volume 2, Chapter XIV, §630

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