Oldest books on Calculus

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What are some of the oldest books available on Calculus? I'm curious to see how the old teaching and explanatory styles compare to modern ones.

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You mean like Newton's "Method of Fluxions"?

Or perhaps de l'Hospital's "Analyse des infiniment petits"?

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Wikipedia lists these important publications in calculus

Edit: Related is this link that has a reference on history of calculus

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The wiki article doesn't seem to mention Isaac Barrow's Lectiones Geometricae (1669); which Morris Kline says is "one of the great contributions to the calculus". This should be a good example of how the old thinking differs, as it uses geometrical arguments rather than analytical.