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The Life of Colin Maclaurin
In the second edition of Colin Maclaurin's A Treatise of Fluxions, published in 1801, there has been added a Life of the Author.
Maclaurin biography
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Life of the Author
Mr Maclaurin, a most eminent mathematician and philosopher, was the son of a clergyman, and born at Kilmoddan, in Scotland, in the year 1698. He was sent to the University of Glasgow in 1709; where he continued five years, and applied to his studies in a very intense manner, and particularly to the mathematics.
His great genius for mathematical learning discovered itself so early as at twelve years of age; when, having accidentally met with a copy of Euclid's Elements in a friend's chamber, he became in a few days master of the first 6 books without any assistance: and it is certain, that in his 16th year he had invented many of the propositions which were afterwards published as part of his work entitled Geometria Organica.
In his 15th year he took the degree of