Diagrams in papers for Commercium Epistolicum (Barrow to Gregorie)
Date
21 January 1671
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p26
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 199mm
width (page): 199mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams relating to the differential equation y2(1+p2) = X from a letter by Isaac Barrow to James Gregorie, enclosed in a letter by John Collins to Gregorie dated 21 January 1671.
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).
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).
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.'
In answer to the Probleme Dr Barrow sent the Lucubrations following
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
In answer to the Probleme Dr Barrow sent the Lucubrations following
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Extract (without the diagrams) 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
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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