TITLE: Calculus book in the spirit of the 18th century
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: I have been reading a lovely 18th century book by John Rowe called An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions. It presents calculus completely motivated by geometric questions - finding tangents to curves; finding and maximising lengths, areas, and volumes; finding radii of curvature and evolutes, etc. etc. There are many more of these books, by L'Hospital, Hayes, Emerson, MacLaurin, Simpson, etc., always illustrated with copious figures. Are there any modern books on calculus written in this spirit?

REPLY [8 votes]: Here is an outstanding modern example:
http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~olegviro/Shchepin/index.html
On Euler's footsteps, by Evgeny Shchepin.
On a more advanced level,
 MR1656255 Stalker, John Complex analysis, Fundamentals of the classical theory of functions. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1998.
It is an interesting, unusual book, though I strongly disagree with many statements in it.