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Babbage (Charles), John F.W. Herschel and George Peacock, translators. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus by Silvestre François Lacroix, first edition in English, 5 engraved folding plates, foxing, modern boards, [Tomash & Williams L12; Origins of Cyberspace 20; Van Sinderen 6], Cambridge, 1816 § Babbage (Charles) Examples of the solutions of functional equations, engraved plate, bound after Herschel (John Frederick William A Collection of Examples of the Applications of the Calculus of Finite Differences, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional foxing, modern cloth, [Tomash & Williams B23 bis; Origins of Cyberspace 26; Van Sinderen 13], Cambridge, 1820, 8vo (2) ⁂ "This translation, done while the translators were still undergraduates, was instrumental in shifting the teaching of mathematics in Britain from Newton's calculus of fluxions to the methods of the differential and integral calculus developed in Europe." - Tomash & Williams. The following 2 works by Herschel and Babbage are a large set of example of the application of the calculus differences, initially intended to accompany that translation but ultimately published separately.