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International Sale: The Library of James Stirling

online only auction | 1 day sale | sale is over

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The address for this sale in Edinburgh, GB will no longer be shown since it has already ended.

Dates

Sale Starts

Thu

Oct 23

7am

2025

Sale Ends

Thu

Oct 23

2025

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...