Definition:Differential Calculus/Historical Note

Historical Note on Differential Calculus
The technique used by to find the Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point is often suggested as anticipating the differential calculus.

had the basic idea of differential calculus in its modern form in about $1628$ or $1629$, but he did not publish these ideas until a decade or so later.

Much of the early work developing differential calculus was done by.

His initial work on this was done during the years $1665$ to $1667$ when he was at home in Woolsthorpe.

At the same time that was arranging his thesis,  was publishing many papers himself on the same subject.

states that first published his account of differential calculus in $1684$.