A <small>LETTER</small> published in the year 1734, under the title of first gave occasion to the ensuing Treatise; and several reasons concurred to … - Colin MacLaurin

This determined me, immediately after that Piece came to my hands, and before I knew any thing of what was intended by others in answer to it, to attempt to deduce those Elements after the manner of the Antients, from a few unexceptionable principles, by Demonstrations of the strictest form.

He considered magnitudes as generated by a or motion, and showed how the velocities of the generating motions were to be compared together. There was nothing in this doctrine but what seemed to be natural and agreeable to the antient geometry. But what he has given us on this subject being very short, his conciseness maybe supposed to have given some occasion to the objections which have been raised against his method.

Besides an answer to ... the Author concealed his real name... a second, by the same hand, in Defense of the first, a Discourse by Mr. Robins, a Treatise of Sir Isaac Newton, with a Commentary by Mr. Colson, and several other Pieces, were published on this Subject.