Diagram in papers for Commercium Epistolicum
Date
17 May 1671
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Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p11
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Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 198mm
width (page): 198mm
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Description
Diagram in an extract of a letter by James Gregorie to John Collins dated 17 May 1671, in Gregorie's letter of 23 July 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.
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. 46: p. 127, 128 Commerc. Epist. Edit. 1722. Extracts from Mr Gregories Letters To be sent to Monsr Leibnitz to peruse who is desired to returne the same to you.'
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Object history
Extract (without the diagram) printed in Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum De analysi promota (London: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712), pp. 46-47; Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota (London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1722), pp. 127-28.
Related fellows
James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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