Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
1670s
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p40
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 202mm
width (page): 202mm
Subject
Description
Collins's notes relating to the priority dispute over the invention of fluxions (calculus) between Newton and Leibniz.
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.
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.
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. 39: p. 123' [reference to the 1722 edition of Commercium Epistolicum].
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Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716, German) , Natural philosopher
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