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 a part of his scientific correspondence. Of this we shall speak later. In Amsterdam he discussed mathematics with Sluze, and became satisfied that his own method of constructing tangents not only accomplished all that Sluze's did, but even more, since it could be extended to three variables, by which tangent planes to surfaces could be found; and especially, since neither irrationals nor fractions prevented the immediate application of his method.

In a paper of July 11, 1677, Leibniz gave correct rules for the differentiation of sums, products, quotients, powers, and roots. He had given the differentials of a few negative and fractional powers, as early as November, 1676, but had made some mistakes. For $$\scriptstyle{d\sqrt{x}}$$ he had given the erroneous value $\scriptstyle{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}}$,|undefined and in another place the value $\scriptstyle{-\frac{1}{2}x^{-\frac{1}{2}}}$;|undefined for $$\scriptstyle{d\frac{1}{x^2}}$$ occurs in one place the wrong value, $\scriptstyle{-\frac{2}{x^2}}$,|undefined while a few lines lower is given $\scriptstyle{-\frac{3}{x^4}}$,|undefined its correct value.

In 1682 was founded in Berlin the Acta Eruditorum, a journal usually known by the name of Leipzig Acts. It was a partial imitation of the French Journal des Savans (founded in 1665), and the literary and scientific review published in Germany. Leibniz was a frequent contributor. Tschirnhaus, who had studied mathematics in Paris with Leibniz, and who was familiar with the new analysis of Leibniz, published in the Acta EroditorumEruditorum [sic] a paper on quadratures, which consists principally of subject-matter communicated by Leibniz to Tschirnhaus during a controversy which they had had on this subject. Fearing that Tschirnhaus might claim as his own and publish the notation and rules of the differential calculus, Leibniz decided, at last, to make public the fruits of his inventions. In 1684, or nine years after the new calculus first dawned upon the mind of Leibniz, and nineteen years after Newton first worked at fluxions,