Diagrams relating to Leibniz's method of tangents
Date
21 June 1677
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p3
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Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 201mm
width (page): 201mm
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Description
This is a copy by Robert Hooke of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated 21 June 1677 (MS/81/37), explaining his method and inverse method of tangents, i.e. differential and integral calculus. This letter was printed as part of the collection of letters Commercium epistolicum (1712) to prove Isaac Newton's priority in the invention of calculus.
Object history
Printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), p. 92.
Related fellows
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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