John Rowe was the author of an Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, which reached its third edition in 1776. The work was then advertised with an extract of a letter to the author “from the learned and well known Reverend J. Stubbs, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford,” setting forth that he had received Rowe's valuable present, and was much surprised to find it so prodigiously improved. Indeed, it so much resembled a new work, when compared with the first edition, that he wished no mention had been made of its being the third, but that the two former editions should be left to be forgotten.