The Text
- The Analyst at David R. Wilkins' website. Includes links to some responses by Berkeley's contemporaries.
The Analyst is also reproduced, with commentary, in:
- Ewald, William, ed., 1996. From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics, Vol. 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
Ewald concludes that Berkeley's objections to the calculus of his day were mostly well taken.
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