Download or read book MacLaurin's Physical Dissertations written by Ian Tweddle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes three of the mathematician’s less known and often hard to obtain works. A general introduction puts the works in context and gives an outline of MacLaurin's career. Each translation is also accompanied by an introduction and analyzed both in modern terms and from a historical point of view.