Diagrams
Date
27 August 1676
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Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p5a
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Dimensions
height (page): 68mm
width (page): 175mm
width (page): 175mm
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Description
Slip pasted into letter.
This appears to be a copy of the diagrams at MM/1/52/003, which are from a letter by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg dated 27 August 1676, Paris. Leibniz here illustrates his method of of transformation: ‘that a given figure, with innumerable lines drawn in any way (provided they are drawn according to some rule or law), may be resolved into parts, and that the parts – or others equal to them – when reassembled in another position or another form compose another figure, equivalent to the former or of the same area even if the shape is quite different; whence in many ways the quadratures can be attained, be they absolute or hypothetical, geometrical or expressed arithmetically by an infinite series’ (translated in Correspondence of Newton, ed. by Turnbull, vol. 2, p. 65).
This appears to be a copy of the diagrams at MM/1/52/003, which are from a letter by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg dated 27 August 1676, Paris. Leibniz here illustrates his method of of transformation: ‘that a given figure, with innumerable lines drawn in any way (provided they are drawn according to some rule or law), may be resolved into parts, and that the parts – or others equal to them – when reassembled in another position or another form compose another figure, equivalent to the former or of the same area even if the shape is quite different; whence in many ways the quadratures can be attained, be they absolute or hypothetical, geometrical or expressed arithmetically by an infinite series’ (translated in Correspondence of Newton, ed. by Turnbull, vol. 2, p. 65).
Object history
Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), pp. 131 [147], 134 [150].
Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), pp. 59, 61.
Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), pp. 59, 61.
Related fellows
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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