Who translated and published Newton's Method of Fluxions in 1736?

John Colson translated and published Newton’s Method of Fluxions in 1736. The volume presented an English translation of Newton’s Latin work and included a running commentary by Colson.

Newton had completed the treatise, De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum, in 1671, but it was not published during his lifetime. The work described his method of fluxions, Newton’s terminology for differential calculus, and methods involving infinite series and the geometry of curves.

Colson’s edition was titled The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series, with its Application to the Geometry of Curve-lines. It was printed by Henry Woodfall and sold by John Nourse. Because Newton’s original text remained in Latin, Colson’s publication helped make these ideas available to English readers.

The 1736 date can cause confusion because the manuscript was much older and Newton’s calculus had already become part of the priority dispute with Leibniz. Colson was the translator and commentator, not the original author of the mathematical treatise.