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The translator flatters himself, however, that he has not expressed the author's meaning in
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was completed by 1818 but he would not publish it for many years. Almost certainly the cost of publication caused the delay, but
Bowditch did not just put the work on one side after 1818 but continued to improve it over the succeeding years. Bowditch was helped by
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in this project and his commentaries doubled the length of the book. His purpose was more than just an
English translation. He wanted to supply steps omitted in the original text; to incorporate later results into the translation; and to give credits omitted by
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Laplace had left in his own publication. Mr. N. I. Bowditch says, in his biography of his father, that Dr. Bowditch was accustomed to remark, "Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words,
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with Book 1 published in 1822 and Book 2 published separately in 1827. Similarly to
Bowditch (see below), Harte felt that Laplace's exposition was too brief, making his work difficult to understand:
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most powerful, to fill up the outline sketched by him. Of these, Laplace himself was the last, and, perhaps after Newton, the greatest; and the task commenced in the
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