International Sale: The Library of James Stirling
Sale Starts
Oct 23
7amSale Ends
Oct 23
Lyon & Turnbull
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Lyon & Turnbull presents the extraordinary collection of James Stirling, one of the foremost mathematicians of eighteenth-century Europe and a prot?g? of Sir Isaac Newton.Renowned for his pioneering work on infinitesimal calculus and infinite series, and immortalised in Stirling?s Formula and the Stirling Numbers, he played a pivotal role in the Newtonian revolution in mathematics. At the heart of this collection lies his Methodus Differentialis (1730), represented in three exceptional forms: Stirling?s holograph manuscript, his personally corrected first edition, and an English translation accompanied by autograph letters from the translator. Alongside these are Stirling?s mathematical notebooks, covering everything from infinite...