Book, An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus . . .
date: label: date made
content: 1886
name: label: maker
content: Johnson, William Woolsey
label: maker
content: Rice, John Minot
notes: label: Description
content: John Minot Rice (1833-1901) and William Woolsey Johnson (1841-1923) found that midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy did not grasp the notion of a limit easily. In 1874, they published a calculus textbook that initially used what they called the method of rates or fluxions, and introduced the idea of a limit only late in the book. This is the third edition of that textbook, published in 1886. The book would remain in print at least as late as 1905. Signatures indicate that owners of the book included F. Thorton Arms of Johns Hopkins University, Herman F. D. Crownfield of Baltimore, and A.C. Crownfield of Mohawk, N.Y.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Crownfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0868.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.0868
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content: 1979.0868.02
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content: book
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content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 15.5 cm x 20.8 cm; 1 9/16 in x 6 3/32 in x 8 3/16 in