Is an English translation of Leibnitz's paper on calculus available?

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So, I was trying to go through "Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus,…, & singulare pro illis calculi genus". However the paper is in a language I don't know (Latin maybe). This is one of the earliest published works on the modern calculus.

Is there an English translation of this great work available?

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A good source for this sort of stuff is David Eugene Smith's book A source book in mathematics. It has collected a bunch of important mathematical papers through history. In particular, there is a partial translation of that Leibniz's paper by Evelyn Walker (under the title "Leibniz on the Calculus", at page 619 in the copy I have (a Dover edition)).

An online copy of the book (1929 edition) is available here.

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The wikipedia article on the paper, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Methodus_pro_Maximis_et_Minimis, contains a link to this PDF file which seems to be exactly what you want: http://17centurymaths.com/contents/Leibniz/nova1.pdf