Diagrams in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
10 April 1675
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Unknown, Artist
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p1
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height (page): 326mm
width (page): 213mm
width (page): 213mm
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Description
Diagrams in a letter dated 10 April 1675 from John Collins to Henry Oldenburg, intended for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Oldenburg sent a Latin translation of this draft to Leibniz in a letter dated 12 April 1675.
This volume contains the letters and papers of John Collins (1625-1683), which came into the possession of William Jones (1675-1749), who used them in Commercium Epistolicum, designed to prove Isaac Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the invention of fluxions (calculus).
The original letters were sealed up at the order of the Royal Society's council (25 October 1714) and stored in an iron chest. Further letters used in the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum must have been added and stored with the original papers. These were ordered on 13 September 1737 to be ‘taken out of the Iron Chest’ and entrusted to Jones, who was asked to paste them into a guard-book in one volume (CMO/2/252, CMO/3/73).
For Newton's review of Commercium epsitolicum, see Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 29, no. 342 (January and February 1715), pp. 173-224.
This volume contains the letters and papers of John Collins (1625-1683), which came into the possession of William Jones (1675-1749), who used them in Commercium Epistolicum, designed to prove Isaac Newton’s priority over Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the invention of fluxions (calculus).
The original letters were sealed up at the order of the Royal Society's council (25 October 1714) and stored in an iron chest. Further letters used in the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum must have been added and stored with the original papers. These were ordered on 13 September 1737 to be ‘taken out of the Iron Chest’ and entrusted to Jones, who was asked to paste them into a guard-book in one volume (CMO/2/252, CMO/3/73).
For Newton's review of Commercium epsitolicum, see Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 29, no. 342 (January and February 1715), pp. 173-224.
Transcription
Endorsed 'No. 36: p. 118 [reference to the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum].
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Object history
Figures printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), p. 40; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), p. 119.
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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