Antedating of "Differentiation"

[Fred Shapiro]

differentiation (OED 1855)

1802 _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London_ 92: 123
(JSTOR)  All processes of evolution, differentiation, integration, &c. are
much more easily performed with the former expression than with the
latter.

Fred Shapiro


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